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As a Product Backend Engineer on Harvey’s product engineering team, you will design and operate the backend systems that turn cutting-edge AI capabilities into seamless, dependable product experiences. You’ll build secure, multi-tenant services, orchestrate interactions with LLMs and agentic tools, and help define the backend architecture that powers Harvey’s 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.
Job Responsibility:
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
Work eligibility: Must be authorized to work in India. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role