Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About Harvey

Harvey is a generative AI company backed by Sequoia and OpenAI's startup fund, building the future of professional services. We are a secure AI platform for professionals in law, tax, and finance, augmenting productivity and automating complex workflows. Our algorithms are developed by a world-class team of lawyers, engineers, and research scientists.

Why Join Us?

• Exceptional Product Market Fit: We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers globally.
• Strategic Investors: Raised over $200 million from Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and the OpenAI Startup Fund.
• World-Class Team: Hiring talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, and more.
• Performance: Achieved $0-30M ARR in the last 18 months.
• Value: Top of market cash and equity compensation.

About The Role

As a Staff 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.

Responsibilities

• Integrate Traditional SaaS with AI Applications: Develop end-to-end features touching all parts of the stack to enable AI workflow and tasks.
• Zero-to-One Product Development: Rapidly prototype, evaluate, and integrate new product features and custom projects for our customers.
• Ship Secure and Compliant Code: Implement security concepts to develop software dealing with sensitive data.
• Develop New AI Native Workflows: Implement streaming, long-running tasks, procedural UX, etc.
• Growth and Delivering Customer Value: Demonstrate an understanding of user behavior, funnels, marketing channels, and mobile to fuel creative design.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a product-focused software engineering role.
• 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.
• Experience working at early-stage startups is a plus.

Compensation

• Salary Range: $200,000 - $280,000
• Equity: Participation in our equity plan
• Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.

Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.