Senior Software Engineer, Backend - NYC
Role Overview
The Software Engineer will own and lead engineering projects across multiple product lines.
The role works with AI, Legal, and go-to-market teams to build secure systems for customers.
The role focuses on application-layer and generative AI products across consumer and enterprise contexts.
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About Harvey
Harvey builds agentic AI and enterprise software for legal and professional services.
The company emphasizes rapid execution, ownership, customer focus, and high engineering standards.
Role Overview
The Software Engineer will own and lead engineering projects across multiple product lines.
The role works with AI, Legal, and go-to-market teams to build secure systems for customers.
The role focuses on application-layer and generative AI products across consumer and enterprise contexts.
What You'll Do
- Scale document ingestion and processing that is growing at 10x every six months.
- Design massive data collection from more than 50 legal jurisdictions.
- Build government-level security for top governments and firms.
- Lead AI projects across web, desktop, mobile, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and API experiences.
- Build agentic orchestration layers, tool calls, retrieval systems, and other AI-native features.
- Ship across the full stack using React, TypeScript, Python, and Postgres.
What You Have
- 5+ years of post-BS/MS experience in a product-focused full-stack software engineering role.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, CSS, Python, or related technologies.
- A track record of building fast-growing SaaS products.
- A track record of shipping intuitive products with strong attention to detail.
- Experience building scalable and extensible solutions across the stack for multiple product lines.
- Strong programming skills and general computer science knowledge.
- Experience at early-stage startups is a plus.
Compensation
- The stated compensation range is $193,400 to $290,000 USD.
About harvey
Developing AI solutions for legal and professional services.
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