Software Engineer, Product Backend
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Job Summary
Why Harvey
At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate not incrementally but end-to-end. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.
This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 700 customers in 58 countries strong product-market fit and world-class investor support were scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious the bar is high and the opportunity for growth personal professional and financial is unmatched.
Our team is sharp motivated and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast operate with intensity and take real ownership of the problems we tackle from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers from leadership to engineers and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity push for excellence and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar we invite you to build with us.
At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.
Role Overview
As a Product Backend Engineer on Harveys product engineering team you will design and operate the backend systems that turn cutting-edge AI capabilities into seamless dependable product experiences. Youll build secure multi-tenant services orchestrate interactions with LLMs and agentic tools and help define the backend architecture that powers Harveys rapidly expanding product surface. Your work will have immediate business and customer impact as you ship the foundational systems behind our next generation of AI products.
What Youll Do
Collaborate closely with Product to prioritize customer-focused work and deliver reliable features quickly in a fast-moving environment.
Design and own backend services and APIs that power Harveys web applications workflows and integrations.
Model and manage data in Postgres and related data stores to support low-latency reliable user experiences.
Build secure multi-tenant permissions-aware systems with appropriate auditing for enterprise and government customers.
Implement backend features and workflows that use LLMs and agentic tools orchestrating calls to our AI systems from robust well-structured services.
Collaborate with frontend product and design partners to shape solutions define clear API contracts and ship features end-to-end.
Add meaningful logging metrics and tracing so services are observable debuggable and ready for on-call ownership.
Improve performance and scalability by profiling bottlenecks tuning queries and refining service boundaries as usage grows.
Participate in code reviews technical design discussions and an on-call rotation for the services you own.
What You Have
5 years of backend engineering experience building and operating production web applications or SaaS products.
Track record of building fast-growing SaaS products by leveraging PWA technologies
Track record of shipping highly intuitive products strong attention to detail
Strong programming skills in Python and experience with a modern web framework (e.g. FastAPI or Flask).
Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres)
Solid understanding of API design authentication/authorization background job patterns and robust error handling.
Experience building for Cloud Infrastructure such as Azure AWS or GCP.
Comfort operating services in production using logs metrics dashboards and alerts including participation in an on-call rotation.
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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin disability age genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition or any other basis protected by law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made by emailing
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- APQP
- Six Sigma
- GD&T
- Root cause Analysis
- CAD
- Project Leadership
- SolidWorks
- Mechanical Engineering
- Quality Management
- Product Development
- Catia
- Manufacturing
About Company
Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.
