Harvey
Staff/Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering
New York, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will lead engineering projects spanning multiple product lines and teams. You will build AI-platform and AI-native capabilities, including agent harnesses, retrieval, and memory management, across web, mobile, and embedded surfaces.
What you will do
- Build Harvey across web, desktop, mobile, embedded experiences, and API.
- Lead large, high-priority projects that span multiple teams.
- Define technical bets for upcoming quarters.
- Prioritize business critical problems and make tradeoff calls.
- Build AI-platform and AI-native capabilities like agent harnesses, tool calling, and retrieval.
- Ship systems for petabyte-scale document retrieval and ingestion.
- Ship across the stack using React, TypeScript, Python, and Postgres.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers.
Required qualifications
- 10+ YoE (post-BS/MS) in a product-focused software engineering role, operating at Staff level or above.
- Depth in full stack, backend, or agents/AI.
- Experience building scalable, extensible systems that support multiple product lines.
- Track record of shipping highly intuitive products in fast-growing SaaS.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, CSS (TailwindCSS), Python, or related.
- For agents/AI, proficiency in Python plus hands-on work building and shipping agentic systems.
- Use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar).
- History of influencing and aligning engineers and leaders outside direct scope.
- Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge.
Nice to have
- experience working at early-stage startups
About the company
Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.