Staff Software Engineer, Harvey
Developer Experience
$238-290k
+ Equity + Bonus
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
Open for applications
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$238-290k
+ Equity + Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help professionals develop expertise, faster.
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about building foundational platforms to enable other engineers to move fast with confidence, we’d love to hear from you
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms
- Proficiency in Python (or similar languages) and deep knowledge of backend development fundamentals and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (Builtekite, Github Actions), test frameworks, or load and performance testing
- Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform)
- A track record of producing high-quality, well-tested code, consistently following software development best practices to ensure quality and reliability
- Proven technical leadership throughout the entire project lifecycle, including ideation, design, implementation, and productionization
- Experience mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions, and shaping culture to foster engineering excellence
- 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 integrating AI agents into a developer ecosystem is a strong plus
What the job involves
- The Developer Experience team is what keeps Harvey’s fast growth momentum possible — the kind of fast where every week brings new products, new capabilities, and new challenges. We build the CI/CD systems, internal frameworks, and platform-level guardrails that enable all Harvey engineers to ship ambitious AI features rapidly and safely
- As a Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you will be responsible for creating frameworks and systems that maximize the velocity and efficiency of every engineer at Harvey
- You’ll work across the entire tech stack and collaborate with every team to instill reliability, automation, and simplicity into our developer workflows. You'll also have a unique opportunity to apply AI directly to the problem of developer productivity, defining the future of software development within an AI-native company
- Develop and scale a world-class developer platform to accelerate Harvey's hyper growth. Boost velocity and stability through robust CI/CD systems, effective test frameworks, and reliable development environments.
- Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure essential for evaluating and optimizing the performance of AI-native applications
- Pioneer the future of software development and site reliability engineering by integrating AI agents across the software development, deployment and maintenance lifecycle
- Collaborate with Backend Platform teams to embed testability, reliability and observability into the platform, ensuring services built on our foundation are robust, easy to test and maintain
- Work closely with engineering teams to gather feedback, evangelize best practices, and make the “paved road” a reality — empowering every Harvey engineer to move fast with confidence
- Set the strategic direction and roadmap for scaling developer experience as Harvey expands, and contribute strategically to team decision-making
- Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship, upholding a high bar for engineering excellence across the team
Our take
The explosive popularity of generative AI tools has seen specialized solutions popping up for all kinds of industries. Hoping to help supercharge efficiency and productivity for legal teams, Harvey supplies generative AI that can assist with documentation, as well as aid research and optimize workflows.
Via natural language instructions, Harvey helps draft and analyze legal documents. It can also answer complex questions across large document sets, or even handle research queries that cover multiple domains in legal, regulatory and tax.
Its ability to support legal practitioners as if it's another member of the team is what makes Harvey particularly interesting. This approach has seen the company raise substantial funding, reaching Unicorn status in 2024. Funds are now being used to expand to new geographies, grow headcount and further collect and curate data to train more “domain-specific” AI models.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2026
$200m
LATE VC
Oct 2025
$160m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Winston Weinberg
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated with a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law, then spent 1 year as an Associate at O'Melveny & Myers before founding Harvey.
Gabe Pereyra
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked as a Research Scientist at Meta and DeepMind. Also spent a year as a Brain Resident at Google.
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