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Staff Web Engineer in USA

Harvey
Full time
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USA
08/20/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Own the architecture, reliability, performance, and scalability of Harvey’s Next.js/Vercel web platform, Sanity content layer, and supporting services and APIs.
Design data foundations and integration patterns connecting the website with marketing, analytics, CRM, and GTM systems across real-time and batch workloads.
Establish automation, CI/CD, preview and deployment tooling, and robust automated testing practices.
Set standards for structured logging, tracing, Core Web Vitals, performance budgets, and alerting.
Lead the use of AI and ML in content operations, personalization, and internal web tooling.
Partner with Security and Infrastructure to harden the platform while preserving developer experience.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship through code reviews, design reviews, and architectural guidance.

Requirements

Require 8+ years of web development experience, deep backend and systems expertise, and staff-level technical architecture ownership.
Require strong experience with React/Next.js, TypeScript, server-side rendering, and backend development using Node, Python, or comparable technologies.
Require experience architecting and operating headless CMS and content platforms such as Sanity or Contentful at scale, including schema design and publishing workflows.
Require experience operating reliable production systems with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability tooling, and performance optimization based on real-user metrics.
Require fluency with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching, queuing, and API or webhook integration patterns for marketing and GTM systems.
Require experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production web experiences or content workflows.
Require demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence across functions, and operate autonomously on a small team.
Preferred qualifications include Vercel experience, HubSpot, Salesforce, or Segment integrations, SEO and web performance engineering, and experience as the first or most senior engineer on a web platform team.

Salary: $147k - $202k/yr

Harvey

Harvey is domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. Adopted by Fortune 500 companies like AT&T, Verizon, Cox, Koch, KKR, Bridgewater, more than 100,000 lawyers across 2,400+ customers in 70 countries and over 75% of AmLaw 100 law firms rely on Harvey to advance legal expertise faste...

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