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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey· Engineering
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Hybrid (Bengaluru)Full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Backend role focused on designing and operating Harvey’s backend systems to deliver trusted, multi-tenant AI-powered features and workflows. Shape architecture, work with LLMs and agentic tools, ensure observability, security, and scalability in a hybrid Bengaluru-based position.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 10+ 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.

Skills

Required:PythonFastAPI or FlaskPostgreSQLAPI design, authentication/authorizationCloud infrastructure
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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