Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey


Job Location:

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 30+ days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

Why Harvey

At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate. 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 1500 customers in 60 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 moves fast takes ownership and is deeply committed to the mission operating with intensity staying close to our customers and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness Simplicity and Jobs Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information we believe simplicity is what scales and were never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive wed love to build with you.

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.

Additional Information

  • Work eligibility: Must be authorized to work in India. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Why HarveyAt Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate. 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 compa...

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Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.

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