6 hours ago
Base Salary
$231k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain internal backend frameworks and libraries for API routing, service lifecycle management, caching, messaging, error handling, authorization, and streaming.
- Create APIs, service templates, and versioned interfaces that establish consistent patterns for services and features.
- Advance asynchronous I/O and streaming data processing architectures for improved performance and scalability.
- Design platform abstractions for data governance, event processing, retrieval, context handling, and prompt lifecycle management.
- Build tracing, metrics, and automated testing into the platform to improve reliability and observability.
- Collaborate with Model Infrastructure on high-throughput model inference and streaming or long-running API interactions.
- Work with Developer Experience and Infrastructure teams to integrate platform components with deployment and monitoring systems.
- Partner with product engineering teams to gather feedback, promote best practices, and provide documented paved-road defaults.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms.
- Proficiency in Python or similar languages and deep knowledge of APIs, data stores, concurrency, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with web frameworks and service architectures such as Flask, FastAPI, bounded-context services, or microservices.
- Experience designing clean, versioned APIs and using caching, messaging, database, and vector database technologies effectively.
- Track record of writing high-quality, well-tested code and using unit or integration testing and static typing to ensure reliability.
- Strong problem-solving, developer-experience, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining internal libraries or frameworks is preferred.
Tech Stack
About Harvey
Harvey builds domain-specific generative AI for legal and other professional services, delivered as an enterprise platform and APIs to automate contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation workflows. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it sells to law firms and corporate legal departments on enterprise agreements; investors include Sequoia Capital and OpenAI. Customers include multiple Am Law 100 firms and Fortune 500 companies’ legal teams.