3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product to prioritize customer-focused work and deliver reliable features quickly.
- Design and own backend services and APIs powering web applications, workflows, and integrations.
- Model and manage data in Postgres and related data stores for low-latency, reliable experiences.
- Build secure, multi-tenant, permissions-aware systems with auditing for enterprise and government customers.
- Implement backend workflows that orchestrate calls to LLMs and agentic tools.
- Collaborate with frontend, product, and design partners to define API contracts and ship features end-to-end.
- Add logging, metrics, and tracing to make services observable and debuggable.
- Improve performance and scalability by profiling bottlenecks, tuning queries, and refining service boundaries.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and on-call ownership for owned services.
Requirements
- 12+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production web applications or SaaS products.
- A track record of building fast-growing SaaS products using Progressive Web App technologies and shipping intuitive products with strong attention to detail.
- Strong Python programming skills and experience with a modern web framework such as FastAPI or Flask.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases such as Postgres.
- Understanding of API design, authentication and authorization, background-job patterns, and robust error handling.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Comfort operating production services with logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts, including participation in an on-call rotation.
- Must be authorized to work in India; visa sponsorship is unavailable.
Benefits
- The role is based in India and requires authorization to work in India.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
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About Harvey
Harvey is domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. Adopted by Fortune 500 companies like AT&T, Verizon, Cox, Koch, KKR, Bridgewater, more than 100,000 lawyers across 2,400+ customers in 70 countries and over 75% of AmLaw 100 law firms rely on Harvey to advance legal expertise faster across contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation. Backed by Sequoia Capital, OpenAI, GV, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue and EQT, Harvey is the trusted partner in modernizing the legal industry.