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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

United States, San Francisco 238000.00 - 290000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 18, 2026
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At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. 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. With 1000+ customers in 58+ countries, 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. 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.

Job Responsibility

  • 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

Requirements

  • 6+ 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

Nice to have

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

What we offer

  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
  • flexible PTO
  • relocation assistance

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