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Harvey

Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

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5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+

Base Salary

$238k - $290k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain internal backend frameworks and libraries.
  • Create and improve APIs, service templates, and versioned interfaces.
  • Introduce modern backend architecture patterns for better performance.
  • Design domain-specific frameworks covering cross-cutting concerns.
  • Embed reliability and observability into the platform.
  • Collaborate with teams to tackle challenges unique to GenAI-native applications.
  • Integrate platform components into the deployment and monitoring ecosystem.
  • Gather feedback from product engineering teams and evangelize best practices.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, particularly in scalable backend systems.
  • Proficiency in Python or similar languages and backend development fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience with web frameworks and service architectures.
  • Familiarity with caching, messaging, and database technologies.
  • A track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for improving developer experience.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining internal libraries/frameworks is a plus.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaFastAPIFlaskPythonRedisSQL

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