Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey

$231K — $340K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of backend software engineering experience on product-focused teams
  • History of building fast-growing SaaS products using PWA technologies
  • Experience delivering user-friendly products with meticulous attention to detail
  • Proven ability to develop backend platforms supporting multiple product lines
  • Strong programming skills and foundational Computer Science expertise
  • Experience in early-stage startups is a plus, demonstrating grit

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering projects across various product lines
  • Implement retrieval systems for peta-byte scale documents
  • Develop organizational interfaces for AI collaboration
  • Manage dedicated GPU resources across multiple regions
  • Build planning agents for public company launch assistance
  • Ensure top-tier security for sensitive information
  • Evaluate LLMs within a complex task taxonomy

Benefits

  • In-person work model
  • Relocation assistance for new employees
Full Job Description
Role Overview

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.

We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

What You'll Do
  • 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


What You Have
  • 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
  • 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


Compensation

$231,000 - $340,000 USD

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