Staff Web Engineer

The role

The Staff Web Engineer serves as the senior technical leader for the architecture, data foundations, and systems integration of harvey.ai and all web-facing surfaces. You will own the technical strategy for the Next.js and Sanity architecture and lead a small, front-end-leaning team.

What you will do

• Own the architecture of the web platform end to end including Next.js/Vercel, Sanity, and supporting services and APIs.
• Design and build data foundations and integration patterns connecting the website to marketing, analytics, CRM, and GTM systems.
• Establish automation, CI/CD, preview/deploy tooling, and automated testing.
• Set observability standards including structured logging, tracing, Core Web Vitals, and alerting.
• Lead the application of AI and ML to web workflows.
• Partner with Security and Infrastructure to harden the platform.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small, front-end-focused team.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of Web Engineering experience with deep back-end and systems expertise.
• Track record of owning technical architecture at a staff level of scope and ambiguity.
• Strong command of React/Next.js, TypeScript, and server-side rendering.
• Back-end depth in Node, Python, or comparable.
• Experience architecting and operating headless CMS and content platforms at scale.
• Experience building and operating production systems including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability tooling, and performance optimization.
• Fluency with data infrastructure fundamentals including SQL/NoSQL databases, caching, queuing, and API and webhook integration patterns.
• Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production web experiences or content workflows.
• Ability to mentor less experienced engineers, influence across functions, and operate autonomously.

Nice to have

• Vercel platform experience
• marketing/GTM systems integration (HubSpot, Salesforce, Segment, analytics)
• SEO and web performance engineering
• prior experience as the first or most senior engineer on a web platform team

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.