# Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

**Company:** [Harvey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/harvey)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $238k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, FastAPI, Flask, Redis, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL, Vector Databases, Asyncio, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2025-12-18

> Build and maintain backend platform frameworks, libraries, and APIs to enable reliable, scalable services for GenAI applications. Requires 7+ years experience in Python backend development, distributed systems, and developer tools.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Develop and maintain internal backend frameworks and libraries (API routing, service lifecycle, caching, messaging, error handling)
- Create APIs, service templates, and versioned interfaces for consistent patterns
- Introduce modern patterns like asyncio and streaming data processing
- Design abstractions for authorization, streaming, data governance, event processing
- Embed reliability and observability (tracing, metrics, automated tests)
- Collaborate with Model Infrastructure on GenAI challenges (model inference, streaming APIs, retrieval)
- Integrate with Developer Experience and Infrastructure teams (CI/CD, deployment)
- Gather feedback from product teams and evangelize best practices

## What You Have
- 7+ years software engineering experience (post-BS/MS), building scalable backend systems or internal platforms
- Proficiency in Python and backend fundamentals (APIs, data stores, concurrency, distributed systems)
- Experience with web frameworks (Flask/FastAPI), service architectures, clean APIs
- Familiarity with caching (Redis), messaging (Kafka), databases (SQL/NoSQL, Vector DBs)
- Track record of high-quality, tested code (unit/integration testing, static typing, CI)
- Strong problem-solving, passion for developer experience
- Excellent collaboration and communication
- Experience with internal libraries/frameworks (plus)

## Compensation Range
$238,000 - $290,000 USD

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