Staff Software Engineer, Backend

The role

You will design and build foundational backend infrastructure and the internal product platform. You will also lead the development of enterprise-facing features for legal and professional services customers.

What you will do

• Design and build foundational backend infrastructure including authentication, permissions, feature flagging, notifications, and document management integrations
• Build and evolve Harvey’s internal product platform
• Lead development of enterprise-facing features like secure multi-party collaboration, cross-organization workflows, and admin controls
• Maintain high standards for security, privacy, and system reliability
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, AI, design, and GTM teams

Required qualifications

• 8+ years (post-BS/MS) of backend-focused software engineering experience on platform and/or product-oriented teams
• Experience working across the stack to ship user-facing features with measurable impact
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, REST/gRPC APIs, databases, and scalable service architectures
• Familiarity with or interest in enterprise SaaS patterns, such as role-based access control (RBAC), feature flag systems, and third-party integrations
• Track record of shipping highly intuitive products
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience building backend platforms that can support multiple product lines
• Strong programming skills
• General Computer Science knowledge

Nice to have

• Familiarity with or interest in enterprise SaaS patterns, such as role-based access control (RBAC), feature flag systems, and third-party integrations

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Must have valid Canadian work rights
• Harvey does not currently offer visa sponsorship for this role

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.