Staff Software Engineer, Backend
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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 own and lead engineering projects across product lines, working closely with AI, Legal, and GTM teams to build secure systems that deliver value to customers. You'll scale document ingestion, design large-scale data collection, and build AI-native features across the full stack. This role is based in New York City with an in-person work model.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience (post-BS/MS) in a product-focused full-stack software engineering role
- Experience with React, TypeScript, CSS (TailwindCSS), Python, or related
- Track record of building fast-growing SaaS products
- Track record of shipping highly intuitive products with attention to detail
- Experience building scalable and extensible solutions across the stack
- Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge
Responsibilities
- Scale document ingestion and processing growing 10x every 6 months
- Design massive data collection from over 50 legal jurisdictions
- Build government-level security for top governments and firms
- Lead projects bringing AI to web, desktop, mobile, Google Docs, MS Word, and API experiences
- Build AI-platform and AI-native features like agentic orchestration layers, tool calls, and retrieval systems
- Ship across the full stack with React, TypeScript, Python and Postgres to build robust APIs for streaming and long-running workflows
Benefits
- Equity
- Relocation assistance