Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 231,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey, Inc. is building the future of professional services with a generational vision.

As a Backend Software Engineer on the Product Engineering team, you will own engineering initiatives across product lines and collaborate with AI, Legal, and GTM teams to deliver secure, scalable systems that provide real value to customers. We’re a fast-growing company with strong investor support and a culture that values decisiveness, simplicity, and completion.

Qualifications

• 10+ 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Backend engineering

SaaS experience

PWA technologies

Computer Science basics

Grit

Job description

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

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

10+ 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

$231,000 - $340,000 USD

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 [e-mail]