Why Harvey

At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate not incrementally but end-to-end. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 1000 customers in 58 countries strong product-market fit and world-class investor support were scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious the bar is high and the opportunity for growth personal professional and financial is unmatched.

Our team is sharp motivated and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast operate with intensity and take real ownership of the problems we tackle from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers from leadership to engineers and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity push for excellence and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar we invite you to build with us.

At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.

Role Overview

Legal professionals spend most of their day in Microsoft Word: drafting reviewing and refining complex documents that shape meaningful outcomes. Harvey in Word brings AI-powered capabilities directly into Word enabling lawyers to draft faster run playbook reviews and perform agentic editing all without leaving their workflow. Its one of our most strategic product lines and a key part of how we meet lawyers where they already work.

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Embedded Experiences team you will own and lead the development of Harvey in Word our Microsoft Office Add-in built on OfficeJS alongside our other Microsoft Office integrations. Youll architect and ship features that integrate seamlessly with Word handling the unique challenges of building performant polished experiences within the Office Add-in environment.

Were looking for someone with deep expertise in OfficeJS and Office Add-in development ideally from building a similar product at scale. Youll join a team of highly motivated skilled engineers who hold everything they touch to the highest standards from architecture to code to user experience. You may also contribute to our Outlook integration and help build the next generation of agentic AI interfaces across the Microsoft suite.

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

What Youll Do

• Own and lead the technical direction of Harvey in Word our flagship Office Add-in product alongside our other Microsoft Office integrations.

• Build the AI-native editing experience: agentic document rewrites real-time redlining and playbook automation that transforms how lawyers work

• Design and build sophisticated integrations with Microsoft Word using the OfficeJS API including document manipulation playbook reviews and AI-assisted drafting

• Architect scalable maintainable solutions that handle the constraints and quirks of the Office Add-in environment across platforms (Windows Mac Web)

• Build polished high-performance interfaces with crisp interactions and resilient error handling

• Collaborate with product design and backend teams to shape APIs and UX for AI-powered features like streaming results and tool-calling workflows

• Navigate Office Add-in requirement sets versioning and cross-platform compatibility to ensure broad reliable support

• Contribute to Harvey in Outlook and shape the next generation of agentic AI interfaces across the Microsoft suite

• Mentor engineers drive technical decisions and raise the bar on quality and developer experience

What You Have

• 5 years of software engineering experience with significant depth in Office Add-in development using OfficeJS

• Experience building and shipping a production Office Add-in product ideally one used at enterprise scale

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript HTML and CSS

• Deep understanding of Office Add-in architecture requirement sets manifest configuration and cross-platform considerations

• Experience with React or similar modern frontend frameworks

• Track record of shipping highly intuitive products with strong attention to detail

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Add-in guidelines and AppSource submission process is a plus

Nice to Have

• Experience with Outlook Add-ins or other Microsoft 365 integrations (SharePoint Teams)

• Background in legal tech or enterprise SaaS

• Experience building products that integrate with AI/LLM capabilities

Compensation Range

$238000 - $312000 USD

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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

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