Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · Bangalore, India · Engineering

This role is for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Harvey, a company transforming legal and professional services with agentic AI. The engineer will design and operate backend systems that integrate cutting-edge AI capabilities into product experiences, build secure multi-tenant services, orchestrate LLM and agentic tool interactions, and define backend architecture for AI products. The role involves shipping foundational systems with immediate business and customer impact.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate closely with Product to prioritize customer-focused work and deliver reliable features quickly in a fast-moving environment.
  2. Design and own backend services and APIs that power Harvey’s web applications, workflows, and integrations.
  3. Model and manage data in Postgres and related data stores to support low-latency, reliable user experiences.
  4. Build secure, multi-tenant, permissions-aware systems with appropriate auditing for enterprise and government customers.
  5. Implement backend features and workflows that use LLMs and agentic tools, orchestrating calls to our AI systems from robust, well-structured services.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production web applications or SaaS products.
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Track record of building fast-growing SaaS products by leveraging PWA technologies
  • Track record of shipping highly intuitive products, strong attention to detail

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise and government customers
  • agentic tools
  • LLMs

Other signals

  • build foundational systems
  • ship the foundational systems behind our next generation of AI products
  • orchestrate interactions with LLMs and agentic tools
  • implement backend features and workflows that use LLMs and agentic tools