Senior Software Engineer, Backend

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to design and operate the backend systems that turn cutting-edge AI capabilities into seamless, dependable product experiences.

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.

Benefits

• Retirement Plan
• Generous Paid Time Off

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