5 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product to prioritize customer-focused work and deliver reliable features quickly.
- Design and own backend services and APIs for web applications, workflows, and integrations.
- Model and manage data in Postgres and related data stores.
- 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 for observability and debuggability.
- Improve performance and scalability by profiling bottlenecks, tuning queries, and refining service boundaries.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and on-call rotations.
Requirements
- 15+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production web applications or SaaS products.
- Track record of building fast-growing SaaS products using PWA technologies and shipping intuitive, detail-oriented products.
- 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 building on cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Production operations experience with logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and on-call rotations.
- Must be authorized to work in India; visa sponsorship is not available.
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About Harvey
Harvey builds domain-specific generative AI for legal and other professional services, delivered as an enterprise platform and APIs to automate contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation workflows. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it sells to law firms and corporate legal departments on enterprise agreements; investors include Sequoia Capital and OpenAI. Customers include multiple Am Law 100 firms and Fortune 500 companies’ legal teams.