Staff Software Engineer, Backend - NYC
Role Overview
The Product Engineering team is seeking a Software Engineer to own and lead engineering projects across multiple product lines.
The role works with AI, Legal, and go-to-market teams to build secure application-layer and generative AI products.
The position is based in New York City and uses an in-person work model.
Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
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About Harvey
Harvey builds agentic AI products and an enterprise-grade platform for legal and professional services.
The company emphasizes ownership, decisiveness, simplicity, customer focus, and high engineering standards.
Role Overview
The Product Engineering team is seeking a Software Engineer to own and lead engineering projects across multiple product lines.
The role works with AI, Legal, and go-to-market teams to build secure application-layer and generative AI products.
The position is based in New York City and uses an in-person work model.
Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
What You Will Do
- Scale document ingestion and processing that is growing at 10 times every six months.
- Design large-scale data collection from more than 50 legal jurisdictions.
- Build government-level security for leading governments and professional firms.
- Lead AI product experiences across web, desktop, mobile, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and APIs.
- Build agentic orchestration layers, tool calls, retrieval systems, and other AI-native features.
- Ship full-stack features with React, TypeScript, Python, and Postgres.
- Architect intuitive user experiences and robust APIs for streaming results and long-running processes.
What You Have
- 7+ years of post-bachelor's or master's experience in product-focused full-stack software engineering.
- 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, extensible solutions across the stack for multiple product lines.
- Strong programming skills and general computer science knowledge.
- Early-stage startup experience is a plus.
Compensation
- The description lists compensation of $231,000 to $340,000 USD.
- Structured source data lists a $238,000 to $290,000 range with equity and bonus eligibility.
About harvey
Developing AI solutions for legal and professional services.
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