Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
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Job Description
Why Harvey
Harvey is a secure AI platform for legal and professional services that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Harvey uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized and developed by our expert team of lawyers engineers and research scientists. Weve found product market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Harvey are:
Exceptional product market fit: We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers in the world including Paul Weiss A&O Shearman Ashurst OMelveny & Myers PwC KKR and many others.
Strategic investors: Raised over $500 million from strategic investors including Sequoia Google Ventures Kleiner Perkins and OpenAI.
World-class team: Harvey is hiring the best talent from DeepMind Google Brain Stripe FAIR Tesla Autopilot Glean Superhuman Figma and more.
Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.
Performance: 4x ARR in 2024.
Competitive compensation.
Role Overview
As a Staff Backend Software Engineer at Harvey youll play a pivotal role in shaping the foundation of our product platform while directly building user-facing features for some of the worlds leading law firms and enterprise customers. This team owns and operates the platform layer that enables secure reliable and flexible experiences for our customers including notifications permissions and feature flag infrastructure. We also build enterprise-grade collaboration experiences for law firms.
You will design and own systems that not only serve as critical infrastructure for the rest of the company but also directly impact how our users engage with Harveys AI-powered legal tools. This role is ideal for engineers who are excited by the opportunity to move between deep platform thinking and hands-on product iteration.
This role is based in Toronto Canada. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
What Youll Do
Design and build foundational backend infrastructure including authentication permissions feature flagging notifications and document management integrations
Build and evolve Harveys internal product platform accelerating development across multiple product lines and engineering teams
Lead development of enterprise-facing features such as secure multi-party collaboration cross-organization workflows and robust admin controls
Maintain high standards for security privacy and system reliability particularly in handling sensitive legal data
Collaborate cross-functionally with product AI design and GTM teams to deliver delightful enterprise-ready experiences
What You Have
5 years (post-BS/MS) of backend-focused software engineering experience on platform and/or product-oriented teams
Experience working across the stack to ship user-facing features with measurable impact
Strong knowledge of distributed systems REST/gRPC APIs databases and scalable service architectures
Familiarity with or interest in enterprise SaaS patterns such as role-based access control (RBAC) feature flag systems and third-party integrations
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
What We Offer
Be part of building something special as a founding member of our Toronto team
Structured hybrid working arrangement: 3 days in our Toronto office 2 days working from home
Additional Information
Location: Toronto Ontario (Hybrid with flexibility)
Work eligibility: Must have valid Canadian work rights; Harvey does not currently offer visa sponsorship for this role
We are an AI company and we use AI to improve all of our processes including in the recruitment process. Whilst we do use AI to help improve efficiency in our recruitment process we do not rely on AI to make any automated decisions and ensure that a human reviews AI output.
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.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made by emailing .
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
