Staff Web Engineer
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were 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. Were 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 Jobs Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information we believe simplicity is what scales and were never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive wed love to build with you.
At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.
The Staff Web Developer joins Harveys Web team as the senior technical leader for the architecture data foundations and systems integration behind and every web-facing surface. The teams mission is to make Harveys web presence evolve at the velocity of the product itself reliable observable and fast enough that Marketing and GTM can ship without waiting on engineering.
This role owns the technical strategy for that platform: the and Sanity architecture the integration layer connecting the website to Harveys marketing analytics and GTM systems and the automation and testing practices the team currently lacks. You will be the most senior engineer on a small front-end-leaning team setting standards and mentoring as much as building.
You partner directly with Harveys product engineering security and infrastructure organizations to make sure the web platform meets the same bar as the rest of the company. It is a rare opportunity to build foundational systems from scratch at one of the fastest-growing AI companies with unusually direct line of sight from your work to the companys growth.
Own the architecture of Harveys web platform end to end the application the Sanity content layer and the services and APIs behind them with a focus on reliability performance and scalability.
Design and build the data foundations and integration patterns that connect the website to Harveys marketing analytics CRM and GTM systems supporting both real-time and batch workloads.
Establish automation CI/CD preview/deploy tooling and robust automated testing where little exists today reducing operational toil and increasing team velocity.
Set observability standards structured logging tracing Core Web Vitals and performance budgets alerting so the team can catch and resolve issues before Marketing does.
Lead how the team applies AI and ML to web workflows from content operations to personalization to internal tooling and act as the bridge between product engineering and web engineering.
Partner with Security and Infrastructure to harden the platform without slowing developer experience.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small front-end-focused team through code review design review and architectural guidance.
8 years of Web Development experience with deep back-end and systems expertise and a track record of owning technical architecture at a staff level of scope and ambiguity.
Strong command of the modern web stack React/ TypeScript and server-side rendering paired with genuine back-end depth (Node Python or comparable) rather than front-end specialization alone.
Experience architecting and operating headless CMS and content platforms (Sanity Contentful or similar) at scale including schema design and publishing workflows.
Proven experience building and operating reliable production systems: CI/CD infrastructure-as-code observability tooling and performance optimization against real user metrics.
Fluency with data infrastructure fundamentals SQL/NoSQL databases caching queuing API and webhook integration patterns in service of marketing and GTM systems.
Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production web experiences or content workflows.
Demonstrated ability to mentor less experienced engineers influence across functions and operate autonomously in a small team where you are the deepest technical voice.
Nice to have: Vercel platform experience; marketing/GTM systems integration (HubSpot Salesforce Segment analytics); SEO and web performance engineering; prior experience as the first or most senior engineer on a web platform team.
$146600 - $201500 USD
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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
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About Company
Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.