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About the Role
As a Backend Platform Engineer at Harvey, you will help build and operate the cohesive backend platform that all our services run on. You’ll design and implement shared frameworks and libraries that abstract common concerns, improve developer experience, and raise the baseline for reliability and performance across all teams. Your mission aligns with our platform charter: create “a shared foundation that enables product teams to ship reliable, observable, and performant experiences quickly and safely.”
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.)
- 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
- 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
- Collaborate with Model Infrastructure team to tackle challenges unique to GenAI-native applications
- Collaborate with the Developer Experience and Infrastructure teams 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
Requirements
- 8+ 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
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and incorporate feedback
- Experience contributing to or maintaining internal libraries/frameworks is a plus
Skills
- Python
- Backend development fundamentals
- APIs
- Data stores
- Concurrency
- Distributed systems
- Web frameworks
- Service architectures
- Flask
- FastAPI
- Bounded context services
- Microservices
- API design
- Caching
- Messaging
- Database technologies
- Redis
- Kafka
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Vector databases
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- Static typing
- CI
- Problem-solving
- Developer experience
- Collaboration
- Communication
Experience Level
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- $231,000 - $340,000 USD
About the Company
- At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.
- This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.
- Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.
- At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
Equal Opportunity
- Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai