高级软件工程师, 后端平台
Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform
为什么选择哈维
在哈维，我们正在改变法律和专业服务的运作方式。通过结合前沿的代理AI、企业级平台和深厚的专业知识，我们正在重塑未来数十年的关键知识工作。
这是一个难得的机会，帮助打造一家具有时代意义的公司，在真正的转折点上参与其中。我们拥有强大的产品市场匹配度和世界级的投资支持。我们正在快速扩展，并实时定义一个新类别。这项工作充满雄心，标准很高，个人、职业和财务上的成长机会是无与伦比的。
我们的团队行动迅速，有责任感，并对使命充满热情——以高强度运作，贴近客户，不断追求卓越。我们秉持三个价值观：果断、简洁、工作未完成。我们在明确判断下快速行动，而非等待完美信息；我们认为简洁才是可扩展的关键；我们从不满足于现状。如果你希望与志同道合的人一起，做出职业生涯中最出色的工作，我们期待与你合作。
在哈维，专业服务的未来正在今天被书写——而我们才刚刚开始。
职位概述
作为哈维的后端平台工程师，你将帮助构建和运营所有服务运行的统一后端平台。在这个中高级职位中，你将设计和实现共享框架和库，抽象常见问题，提升开发者体验，并提高所有团队的可靠性和性能基准。你的任务与我们的平台章程一致：创建“一个共享基础，使产品团队能够快速、安全地交付可靠、可观测和高性能的体验”。通过集中处理常见工作，你将让产品工程师专注于交付功能，而不是重复造轮子。这是一个高影响力的角色，你编写的代码和构建的系统将提升整个公司的工程生产力和质量。
如果你对构建基础系统、解决跨领域技术挑战以及让他人自信地更快前进充满热情，我们期待收到你的简历。
你将负责
- 开发和维护哈维内部的后端框架和库，提供通用功能（API路由、服务生命周期管理、缓存和消息传递原语、错误处理接口等），使产品团队无需重复开发
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WHY HARVEY
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.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Backend Platform Engineer at Harvey, you will help build and operate the cohesive backend platform that all our services run on. In this mid-to-senior level role, 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.” By centralizing common work, you’ll let product engineers focus on shipping features rather than re-inventing the wheel. This is a high-impact role where the code you write and the systems you build will amplify the productivity and quality of engineering across the entire company.
If you’re excited about building foundational systems, solving cross-cutting technical challenges, and enabling others to move faster with confidence, we’d love to hear from you.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- 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.), so product teams don’t have to reinvent them
- 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, continually evolving our platform for better performance and scalability
- Design Harvey-specific abstractions and domain-specific frameworks—covering cross-cutting concerns (e.g., authorization, streaming) and areas like data governance and event processing—to provide product engineers with these capabilities out of the box.
- Embed reliability and observability into the platform by building in tracing, metrics, and automated tests (shift-left), ensuring services built on our foundation are robust and easy to monitor
- Collaborate with Model Infrastructure team to tackle challenges unique to GenAI-native applications — such as supporting high-throughput model inference, managing streaming and long-running API interactions, and designing abstractions for retrieval, context handling, and prompt lifecycle
- Collaborate with the Developer Experience and Infrastructure teams (who own CI/CD pipelines, build tools, and release infrastructure) 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 — providing strong defaults and clear documentation so teams can move fast with confidence
WHAT YOU HAVE
- 5+ 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 — you enjoy creating tools or frameworks that make other engineers more productive
- 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.
COMPENSATION RANGE
$238,000 - $290,000 USD
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