Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey

Product Backend Engineer on Harvey’s product engineering team designing backend systems for AI products. Collaborating closely with Product and development teams to deliver reliable features quickly.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeBengaluru • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudFlaskGoogle Cloud PlatformPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

15+ 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

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend engineeringPythonFastAPIFlaskPostgresAPI designauthenticationauthorizationCloud InfrastructureSaaS products

Soft Skills

collaborationattention to detailproblem-solvingcommunicationtechnical design discussionson-call ownershipcustomer-focusedprioritizationobservabilitydebugging