Harvey
legal
StaffSoftwareEngineer,FullStack-NewVerticals
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“Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack - New Verticals at Harvey. Skills: Full Stack Engineering, AI-powered applications, workflow orchestration, data systems. build new products and capabilities for the legal industry from first principles. own ambiguous, high-leverage problems across the full stack”
What You'll Achieve.
identify repeatable patterns and turn them into durable product and platform capabilities that can define new verticals for Harvey; measure product quality in production and inform engineering and model decisions; successful solutions can scale across customers and verticals
Industry & Context.
solve real problems with urgency and care; translate ambiguous business or user needs into thoughtful technical designs
relocation assistance
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of experience building and operating production software, with meaningful ownership of systems from initial concept through launch and iteration, engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data modeling, and exposure to at least one modern frontend stack, Experience building full-stack products, not just isolated services or UI layers, Experience working with data pipelines, analytical systems, or document-heavy workflows, including schema design, ETL, query performance, and data reliability, Experience building AI-powered or workflow-driven applications, such as retrieval systems, agentic workflows, orchestration layers, evaluation pipelines, or structured generation systems, Comfort working across a broad technical surface area, including application code, infrastructure, databases, observability, and internal tooling, Ability to debug and improve complex production systems using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and engineering intuition, product sense and the ability to translate ambiguous business or user needs into thoughtful technical designs, Comfort partnering directly with customers and cross-functional teams to scope problems, validate solutions, and drive adoption, Clear, concise communication, a low-ego working style, and enthusiasm for collaborating in person with teammates in New York
What You'll Do.
build new products and capabilities for the legal industry from first principles
high-leverage problems across the full stack
work on greenfield and early-stage product areas that user-facing applications
document and knowledge pipelines
and agentic workflows
building production frontend experiences
designing APIs and services
standing up ETL pipelines
improving retrieval and evaluation loops
orchestrating long-running agents
shipping platform capabilities that make entirely new solution categories possible
Design and build production systems end-to-end across frontend applications
and developer tooling
Develop new vertical product capabilities involving document ingestion
workflow orchestration
and human-in-the-loop review flows
Build and operate data-intensive systems
including ETL pipelines
analytical data models
and interfaces for querying and exploring large datasets
Ship customer-facing features quickly
then harden them for scale through observability
and operational excellence
and feedback systems that measure product quality in production and inform engineering and model decisions
Contribute reusable platform patterns
and internal tools so successful solutions can scale across customers and verticals
Help drive technical direction in ambiguous spaces
making engineering decisions with incomplete information and a high degree of ownership
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partner closely with customers, product, design, and other engineers; Partner directly with customers and internal stakeholders to understand domain-specific workflows, map requirements into technical designs, and iterate rapidly on real usage; Comfort partnering directly with customers and cross-functional teams to scope problems, validate solutions, and drive adoption; collaborating in person with teammates in New York
Communication Scope
Clear, concise communication
Process & Methodology
move from undefined problem spaces to concrete technical plans, test assumptions quickly, adjust without attachment when the evidence changes
Full Job Description
WHY HARVEY At Harvey, we’re 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, 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 1000+ 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 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 we’re just getting started. ROLE OVERVIEW We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer, New Verticals to build new products and capabilities for the legal industry from first principles. This is a deeply technical, end-to-end engineering role for someone who is excited to own ambiguous, high-leverage problems across the full stack. You will work on greenfield and early-stage product areas that span user-facing applications, backend services, data systems, document and knowledge pipelines, and agentic workflows. Depending on the problem, that may mean building production frontend experiences, designing APIs and services, modeling data, standing up ETL pipelines, improving retrieval and evaluation loops, orchestrating long-running agents, or shipping platform capabilitie
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