Job Overview
Location
New York
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Backend Engineer
Date Posted
May 6, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend at Harvey AI Inc., 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 in legal and professional services.
- • Day to day, you will work on retrieval over petabyte-scale documents, organizational-level interfaces for AI collaboration, managing dedicated GPU capacity across 5+ regions, building 1000-step planning agents for complex workflows like taking companies public, implementing government-level security for sensitive matters, evaluating LLMs across a 10k+ leaf taxonomy of tasks, and conducting internet-scale data collection from over 50+ jurisdictions.
- • Harvey AI Inc. is transforming legal and professional services through frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, with 1000+ customers in 60+ countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor backing, operating with intensity, ownership, and close customer collaboration in an in-person work model.
- • In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of application-layer and genAI products, deepen expertise in scalable backend systems and AI infrastructure, lead high-impact technical initiatives, and grow professionally alongside a sharp, mission-driven team at a true inflection point in the evolution of knowledge work.
🎯 Requirements
- • 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
- • 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
🏖️ Benefits
- • Relocation assistance for new employees
- • Compensation range of $231,000 - $340,000 USD
- • Opportunity to work on ambitious, high-impact projects at a scaling company with 1000+ customers in 60+ countries
- • In-person work model fostering close collaboration with AI, Legal, and GTM teams
- • Exposure to cutting-edge agentic AI, GPU infrastructure, and enterprise-scale security challenges
Skills & Technologies
About Harvey AI Inc.
Harvey AI Inc. provides a generative artificial-intelligence platform engineered specifically for the legal profession. The software integrates with law-firm workflows to automate contract drafting, review, due-diligence and regulatory research, producing lawyer-quality language grounded in up-to-date statutes and precedents. Harvey combines large language models trained on legal corpora with secure, private-cloud deployment and firm-specific fine-tuning to maintain confidentiality and compliance. Clients range from global law firms to in-house legal departments seeking efficiency gains without compromising accuracy or security. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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