Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate through frontier agentic AI and enterprise-grade platforms. As a Backend Software Engineer on the Product Engineering team, you'll own and lead engineering projects across our product lines, working closely with AI, Legal, and GTM teams to build secure, scalable systems. With 1000+ customers in 58+ countries and strong product-market fit, you'll help shape the future of professional services at a critical inflection point.

What you'll do

• Own backend engineering projects across multiple product lines, from conception through long-term outcomes
• Build retrieval systems operating at petabyte scale across documents and data
• Design organizational-level interfaces enabling collaboration between users and AI systems
• Manage dedicated GPU capacity and infrastructure across 5+ regions
• Develop backend platforms supporting complex workflows, including 1000-step planning agents
• Implement government-level security standards for sensitive legal and professional matters
• Evaluate and integrate LLMs across large-scale task taxonomies (10k+ leaf nodes)
• Architect data collection and processing pipelines across 50+ jurisdictions

What Harvey is looking for

• 6+ years of backend-focused software engineering experience on product-centric teams (post-BS/MS)
• Proven track record building fast-growing SaaS products with modern web technologies
• Experience designing backend platforms that support multiple product lines at scale
• Strong programming fundamentals and Computer Science knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to ship intuitive, detail-oriented products
• Grit and ownership mentality; early-stage startup experience is a plus