Staff Web Engineer

Harvey
New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 146,600 - 201,500 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentorship","Cross-functional influence","Autonomy","Ownership"]

Lead Harvey’s web platform from end to end, shaping the Next.js/Vercel application and Sanity content layer to deliver reliability, performance, and scalability. Own data foundations and integration patterns connecting the site to marketing, analytics, CRM, and GTM systems for real-time and batch workloads. Establish CI/CD, preview tooling, automated testing, and observability standards, then mentor a small front-end-focused team while partnering with Product, Security, and Infrastructure.

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Job Summary

Lead Harvey’s web platform from end to end, shaping the Next.js/Vercel application and Sanity content layer to deliver reliability, performance, and scalability. Own data foundations and integration patterns connecting the site to marketing, analytics, CRM, and GTM systems for real-time and batch workloads. Establish CI/CD, preview tooling, automated testing, and observability standards, then mentor a small front-end-focused team while partnering with Product, Security, and Infrastructure.
Location: New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the architecture of Harvey’s web platform end to end, including Next.js/Vercel, Sanity content layer, and the services and APIs behind them.
  • •Design and build data foundations and integration patterns connecting the website to marketing, analytics, CRM, and GTM systems for real-time and batch workloads.
  • •Establish automation, CI/CD, preview/deploy tooling, and robust automated testing to reduce operational toil and increase team velocity.
  • •Set observability standards (structured logging, tracing, Core Web Vitals, performance budgets, alerting) so issues are caught before Marketing is impacted.
  • •Lead AI and ML application to web workflows (content operations, personalization, internal tooling) and mentor the team through design/code reviews and architectural guidance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 146,600 - 201,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of web development experience with deep back-end and systems expertise, owning technical architecture at staff level in scope and ambiguity.
  • •Strong command of modern web stack including React/Next.js, TypeScript, and server-side rendering, with genuine back-end depth (Node, Python, or comparable).
  • •Experience architecting and operating headless CMS/content platforms (Sanity, Contentful, or similar) at scale, including schema design and publishing workflows.
  • •Proven experience building and operating reliable production systems including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability tooling, and performance optimization against real user metrics.
  • •Fluency with data infrastructure fundamentals (SQL/NoSQL, caching, queuing, APIs/webhooks) and integrating AI/ML capabilities into production web experiences or content workflows.
Experience:AIWeb developmentSaaS
Skills:Technical leadershipMentorshipCross-functional influenceAutonomyOwnership
Tech Stack:Next.jsVercelReactTypeScriptServer-side renderingNodePythonSanityContentfulCI/CDAutomationPreview/deploy toolingAutomated testingStructured loggingTracingCore Web VitalsPerformance budgetsAlertingObservabilitySQL

Company Brief

Harvey
Harvey builds domain-specific generative AI for legal and professional services, automating contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation workflows for law firms and corporate legal teams.
Industry: LegalTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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Glassdoor: 4.1
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