Harvey
Technology
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,Backend
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“Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Harvey. Skills: Backend infrastructure, Enterprise features, Platform development. Design foundational backend infrastructure. Build foundational backend infrastructure”
Industry & Context.
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years backend software engineering, Experience shipping user-facing features, Knowledge of distributed systems, Knowledge of REST/gRPC APIs, Knowledge of databases, Knowledge of scalable service architectures, Programming skills, General Computer Science knowledge
Nice to Have
Enterprise SaaS patterns familiarity, Role-based access control (RBAC) familiarity, Feature flag systems familiarity, Third-party integrations familiarity, Interest in enterprise SaaS patterns
What You'll Do.
Design foundational backend infrastructure
Build foundational backend infrastructure
Build Harvey’s internal product platform
Evolve Harvey’s internal product platform
Lead development of enterprise-facing features
Maintain high standards for security
Maintain high standards for privacy
Maintain high standards for system reliability
Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams
Collaborate cross-functionally with AI teams
Collaborate cross-functionally with design teams
Collaborate cross-functionally with GTM teams
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Product teams; AI teams; Design teams; GTM teams
Full Job Description
WHY HARVEY At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re 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 1500+ customers in 60+ countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, we’re 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 moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started. ROLE OVERVIEW As a Backend Software Engineer at Harvey, you’ll play a pivotal role in constructing the foundation of our product platform while directly building user-facing features for some of the world’s 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 systems that not only serve as critical infrastructure for the rest of the company, but also directly impact how our users engage with Harvey’s AI-powered legal tools. This role is ideal for engineers who are excited by the opportu
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