Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Highlights

• Design backend systems that turn cutting-edge AI into seamless product experiences.
• Build secure, multi-tenant services for enterprise and government customers.
• Orchestrate LLMs and agentic tools powering Harvey's next-gen AI products.

Ideal candidate

A customer-obsessed backend owner who thrives in fast-moving teams, takes pride in reliable, intuitive products, and wants to shape enterprise AI at an inflection point.

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 with 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 with observability and on-call ownership