Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

The role

You will build and operate a cohesive backend platform that all services run on. You will design shared frameworks and libraries to improve developer experience, reliability, and performance.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain internal backend frameworks and libraries
• Create and improve APIs, service templates, and versioned interfaces
• Introduce and champion modern backend architecture patterns
• Design Harvey-specific abstractions and domain-specific frameworks
• Embed reliability and observability into the platform
• Collaborate with Model Infrastructure team on GenAI-native application challenges
• Collaborate with Developer Experience and Infrastructure teams to integrate platform components
• Work with product engineering teams to gather feedback and evangelize best practices

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience (post-BS/MS)
• Experience building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms
• Proficiency in Python (or similar languages)
• 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)
• Understanding of designing clean, versioned APIs
• Familiarity with caching, messaging, and database technologies (Redis, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL databases, Vector databases, etc.)
• Track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code
• Use of tools like unit/integration testing, static typing, and CI
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience contributing to or maintaining internal libraries/frameworks

About the company

Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.