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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Hybrid
San Francisco, CA
193K-290K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
San Francisco, CA
193K-290K Annually
Senior level
As a Backend Software Engineer, you will lead engineering projects, build secure systems, and collaborate on AI applications to deliver high-value products.
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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

As a Backend Software Engineer on the Product Engineering team at Harvey, you will own and lead engineering projects across our various product lines. You will work closely with our AI, Legal, and GTM teams to build secure systems that deliver value to our customers. We are looking for individuals who have worked across the stack on incredible products across consumer, enterprise, and various industries and who are excited about building the future of application layer and genAI products.

We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

What You'll Do
  • Retrieval over peta-byte scale documents

  • Organizational-level interfaces to collaborate with AI

  • Managing dedicated GPU capacity across 5+ regions

  • 1000-step planning agents that help take companies public

  • Government-level security for the world's most sensitive matters

  • Evaluating LLMs across a 10k+ leaf taxonomy of tasks

  • Internet-scale data collection from over 50+ jurisdictions

What You Have
  • 5+ years (post-BS/MS) of backend-focused software engineering experience on product-centric teams

  • Track record of building fast-growing SaaS products by leveraging PWA technologies

  • Track record of shipping highly intuitive products, strong attention to detail

  • Experience building backend platforms that can support multiple product lines

  • Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge

  • Grit - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus

Compensation

$193,400 - $290,000 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 [email protected]

Harvey New York, New York, USA Office

New York, New York, United States, 10010

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