Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience
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Harvey is an AI platform for legal and professional-services organizations.
Series F+Recently funded
Distributed
About Harvey
Harvey provides agents and collaborative tools for legal work, including legal research, document analysis, secure workspaces, contract intelligence, and organization-level analytics.
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About the Role
You will create frameworks and systems that maximize engineering velocity, building CI/CD, test frameworks, and load testing infrastructure. You'll integrate AI agents across the software lifecycle, collaborate with backend platform teams, set strategic direction, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms
- Proficiency in Python or similar and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD (Buildkite, GitHub Actions), test frameworks, or load testing
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform
- Track record of high-quality, well-tested code
- Proven technical leadership across the project lifecycle
- Experience mentoring engineers
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Develop and scale a developer platform with robust CI/CD, test frameworks and dev environments
- Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure for AI-native applications
- Integrate AI agents across the software development, deployment and maintenance lifecycle
- Collaborate with Backend Platform teams on testability, reliability and observability
- Gather feedback and evangelize best practices across engineering teams
- Set strategic direction and roadmap for developer experience
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship
