Software Engineer, Product Backend
Harvey
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bengaluru • 🇮🇳 India
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudFlaskGoogle Cloud PlatformPostgresPython
About the role
- 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 Harvey’s 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate
- reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
backend engineeringPythonFastAPIFlaskPostgresAPI designauthenticationauthorizationCloud InfrastructurePWA technologies
Soft skills
collaborationattention to detailproblem-solvingcommunicationownership