Staff Software Engineer, Harvey
Platform
$250-290k
+ Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
Job no longer available
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$250-290k
+ Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help professionals develop expertise, faster.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience)
- 10+ years of software development experience, particularly in backend systems or platform services, with proven ability to mentor and guide technical teams
- Proficiency in backend-focused languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, or similar
- Experience with large-scale high-traffic applications, distributed systems, and scalable data storage solutions
- Experience with enterprise software features like permissions (RBAC), analytics, audit logs, notifications, self-serve onboarding, and provisioning
- Experience with authentication frameworks (SSO, SCIM, OAuth), compliance, and security best practices
- Experience with API development and enterprise integrations (SaaS, on-prem)
What the job involves
- At Harvey, our platform team lays the foundation for everything we build. As a Platform Engineer, you’ll design and scale the core systems that power our legal AI product — from authentication and permissions to observability and integrations. You’ll work closely with product, infra, and security teams to drive velocity, reliability, and compliance across the stack.
- This is a high-leverage role for engineers who love building systems that scale and thrive on cross-functional collaboration
- Collaborate cross-functionally to implement core abstractions and services that increase product velocity: notifications, data fetching patterns, data access abstractions, etc
- Improve reliability, scalability, and compliance for platform services like permissions management, admin reporting, and customizations.Develop and enhance platform features including authentication, compliance, and enterprise integrations across the legal tech ecosystem
- Partner closely with product teams to seamlessly integrate new features into core platform
- Establish best practices in security, compliance, and maintainability throughout development cycles
- Provide technical mentorship and leadership, promoting best practices and fostering team growth
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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