Staff Backend Software Engineer, Harvey

$231-340k

Offers Equity & Bonus

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

5 days a week in office

Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services

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Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceLegalSaaS

Be an early applicant

$231-340k

Offers Equity & Bonus

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

5 days a week in office

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceLegalSaaS

Company mission

To help professionals develop expertise, faster.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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
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

What the job involves

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
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

Our take

The explosive popularity of generative AI tools has seen specialized solutions popping up for all kinds of industries. Hoping to help supercharge efficiency and productivity for legal teams, Harvey supplies generative AI that can assist with documentation, as well as aid research and optimize workflows.

Via natural language instructions, Harvey helps draft and analyze legal documents. It can also answer complex questions across large document sets, or even handle research queries that cover multiple domains in legal, regulatory and tax.

Its ability to support legal practitioners as if it's another member of the team is what makes Harvey particularly interesting. This approach has seen the company raise substantial funding, reaching Unicorn status in 2024. Funds are now being used to expand to new geographies, grow headcount and further collect and curate data to train more “domain-specific” AI models.

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Company

Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)

Mar 2026

$200m

LATE VC

Oct 2025

$59m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $1.2bn

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Winston Weinberg

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Graduated with a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law, then spent 1 year as an Associate at O'Melveny & Myers before founding Harvey.

Gabe Pereyra

(Co-Founder & President)

Previously worked as a Research Scientist at Meta and DeepMind. Also spent a year as a Brain Resident at Google.

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