Staff Software Engineer, Harvey
Backend
$220-280k
+ Equity
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
Open for applications
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$220-280k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help professionals develop expertise, faster.
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
- 6+ 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 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$160m
LATE VC
Oct 2025
$59m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $1.0bn
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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