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Harvey · 18 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$238K/yr - $290K/yr
date7+ years exp

Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate through the use of AI and an enterprise-grade platform. The Backend Platform Engineer will design and implement shared frameworks and libraries to enhance developer experience and ensure reliability and performance across all teams.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyLegalLegal Tech
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote
Hiring Manager
Andre Nguyen
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Responsibilities

Develop and maintain Harvey’s internal backend frameworks and libraries that provide common capabilities (API routing, service lifecycle management, caching and messaging primitives, error handling interfaces, etc.), so product teams don’t have to reinvent them
Create and improve APIs, service templates, and versioned interfaces that establish consistent patterns for building new services and features
Introduce and champion modern backend architecture patterns like asynchronous I/O (asyncio) and streaming data processing, continually evolving our platform for better performance and scalability
Design Harvey-specific abstractions and domain-specific frameworks—covering cross-cutting concerns (e.g., authorization, streaming) and areas like data governance and event processing—to provide product engineers with these capabilities out of the box
Embed reliability and observability into the platform by building in tracing, metrics, and automated tests (shift-left), ensuring services built on our foundation are robust and easy to monitor
Collaborate with Model Infrastructure team to tackle challenges unique to GenAI-native applications — such as supporting high-throughput model inference, managing streaming and long-running API interactions, and designing abstractions for retrieval, context handling, and prompt lifecycle
Collaborate with the Developer Experience and Infrastructure teams (who own CI/CD pipelines, build tools, and release infrastructure) to integrate our platform components seamlessly into the deployment and monitoring ecosystem
Work closely with product engineering teams to gather feedback, evangelize best practices, and make the “paved road” approach a reality — providing strong defaults and clear documentation so teams can move fast with confidence

Qualification

PythonBackend developmentWeb frameworksCaching technologiesMessaging technologiesDatabase technologiesHigh-quality codeProblem-solvingCollaboration skills

Required

7+ years of software engineering experience (post-BS/MS), including building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms
Proficiency in Python (or similar languages) and deep knowledge of backend development fundamentals (APIs, data stores, concurrency, distributed systems)
Hands-on experience with web frameworks and service architectures (e.g. Flask/FastAPI, Bounded context services, microservices) and an understanding of designing clean, versioned APIs
Familiarity with caching, messaging, and database technologies (Redis, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL databases, Vector databases, etc.) and how to use them effectively for high performance and reliability
A track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code and using tools (unit/integration testing, static typing, CI) to catch issues early and ensure reliability
Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for improving developer experience — you enjoy creating tools or frameworks that make other engineers more productive
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and incorporate feedback

Preferred

Experience contributing to or maintaining internal libraries/frameworks is a plus

Company

Harvey

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Harvey provides AI-driven tools to assist legal professionals with research, document review, and contract analysis.
dateFounded in 2022
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
https://harvey.ai

H1B Sponsorship

Harvey has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (21)
2024 (6)
2023 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$1.02B
Key Investors
Andreessen HorowitzEQT GrowthSequoia Capital
2025-10-30Series F· $160M
2025-10-06Series E· $59M
2025-06-23Series E· $300M

Leadership Team

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Winston Weinberg
CEO & Co-Founder
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Gabe Pereyra
President & Co-Founder
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