Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform

Harvey
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 238,000 - 290,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Problem-solving","Developer experience","Ownership"]

Backend Platform Engineer responsible for building and operating Harvey’s cohesive internal backend platform. You'll design shared frameworks, APIs, and domain-specific abstractions to raise reliability, performance, and developer experience across teams, while collaborating with Model Infrastructure and DevX/Infrastructure groups to support GenAI‑native applications and scalable backend services.

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Harvey
Harvey
8 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform

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Job Summary

Backend Platform Engineer responsible for building and operating Harvey’s cohesive internal backend platform. You'll design shared frameworks, APIs, and domain-specific abstractions to raise reliability, performance, and developer experience across teams, while collaborating with Model Infrastructure and DevX/Infrastructure groups to support GenAI‑native applications and scalable backend services.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key 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
  • •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

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 238,000 - 290,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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
Experience:7+ yearsEnterprise softwareAI/GenAISaaS
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationProblem-solvingDeveloper experienceOwnership
Tech Stack:PythonFlaskFastAPIRedisKafkaSQLNoSQLVector databasesAsyncio

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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