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title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience at Harvey'
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# Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience at Harvey

- **Company:** [Harvey](https://feeny.ai/companies/harvey)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $231k–$340k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey/9cc08902-8916-47a8-a849-eec2c67ab3bd/application

**Skills:** Python, Backend Development, Distributed Systems, CI/CD, Builtekite, Github Actions, Test Frameworks, Load Testing, Performance Testing, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, Pulumi, Terraform, AI Agents

> Build and scale developer experience platforms, CI/CD systems, and internal frameworks to accelerate engineering velocity and reliability. Integrate AI agents into the development lifecycle to enhance productivity and automate testing. Provide technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating across teams to e...

## Job description

## 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

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. If you are passionate about building foundational platforms to enable other engineers to move fast with confidence, we’d love to hear from you.

## What You'll Do

- 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.

## What You Have

- 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.

## Compensation

$231,000 - $340,000

Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices [[here](https://www.notion.so/harveyai/Harvey-Candidate-Privacy-Policies-319ac3fcdd7a803bb807d5094f249922)].

## #LI-AN2

Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai

## About Harvey

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Harvey builds domain-specific AI software for legal and professional services, enabling law firms and in-house teams to automate research, contract analysis, due diligence, and complex workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by leading venture capital firms)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Winston Weinberg (CEO), Gabriel Pereyra (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI software for legal and professional services (LegalTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large law firms (AmLaw 100), in-house legal teams at Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-sized firms, and professional service networks across 60+ countries.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To enable legal and professional services teams to focus on high-value work by providing a secure, expert AI platform that handles research, drafting, and complex workflows.

## Products & Services
- **Harvey Assistant**: Ask questions, analyze documents, and draft faster with domain-specific AI (SaaS).
- **Harvey Vault**: Securely store, organize, and bulk-analyze legal documents (SaaS).
- **Harvey Knowledge**: Research complex legal, regulatory, and tax questions across domains (SaaS).
- **Harvey Agents**: Purpose-built agents that execute complex legal work end-to-end (SaaS).
- **Harvey Contract Intelligence**: Surface insights, strengthen negotiations, and accelerate reviews (SaaS).
- **Harvey Command Center**: Analytics, benchmarking, and agentic insights for leading AI transformation (SaaS).
- **Harvey Mobile**: Mobile access to stay productive from anywhere (SaaS).
- **Harvey Shared Spaces**: Collaborate with legal teams across organizations in secure shared workspaces (SaaS).
- **Harvey Ecosystem**: Integration with existing tools to ground answers in trusted sources (API/platform).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (company is private).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) – reported in press but exact figure not disclosed; strong growth implied by 1,500+ customers and rapid hiring.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV (Google Ventures), OpenAI Startup Fund, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, EQT.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Named Time100 Most Influential Companies (2025).
  - LinkedIn Top 50 Startup of 2025.
  - CNBC Disruptor 50 List.
  - 1,500+ customers across 60+ countries, including AmLaw 100 firms.
  - Headcount: ~300 employees (as of mid-2025), with aggressive hiring (254 active job postings).
  - Office expansion: San Francisco, New York City, London.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain specialization**: AI models trained specifically for legal and professional services, not generic LLMs.
- **Enterprise security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, GDPR, CCPA compliance – meeting law firm security requirements.
- **Deep investor backing**: World-class VC network provides strategic guidance and access.
- **Strong product‑market fit**: Rapid adoption by top-tier law firms and in-house teams, with high switching costs due to embedded workflows.
- **First‑mover in agentic legal AI**: Purpose‑built agents execute end‑to‑end tasks, differentiating from simple document Q&A tools.

## Strategic Focus
- **Customization, collaboration, and simplicity**: Helping teams embed expertise into Harvey, collaborate across firms, and reduce complexity via agentic workflows.
- **Expansion beyond legal**: Long‑term ambition to transform professional services broadly (consulting, accounting, etc.).
- **Product innovation**: Continued investment in agentic AI, mobile access, and ecosystem integrations.
- **Global growth**: Scaling sales and engineering teams in existing hubs and expanding into new markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑paced, collaborative, ambitious. Values include **Decisiveness** (“take the square root of the weather” – avoid overanalysis), **Simplicity**, and **Job’s Not Finished** (continuous improvement).
- **Work environment**: Hybrid – 3+ days per week in office for roles based in San Francisco, New York City, or London. Some fully remote positions available (clearly marked).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) match, paid parental leave (immediately eligible), annual professional development stipend, in‑office daily lunch, and more.
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling (~300 employees, 254 open roles) provides internal mobility and ownership of impactful projects.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong blend of AI research (DeepMind background) and legal domain expertise. CTO Siva Gurumurthy recently joined. Emphasis on building secure, enterprise‑grade products.

## Sources
1. [harvey.ai](https://www.harvey.ai/)
2. [harvey.ai/company](https://www.harvey.ai/company)
3. [harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey](https://www.harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey)
4. [linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey)

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