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Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey & Company LLC
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/9/2025

Why Harvey

Harvey is a secure AI platform for professionals in law, tax, and finance that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Harvey uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized and developed by our expert team of lawyers, engineers and research scientists. We’ve found product market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Harvey are :

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Exceptional product market fit : We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers in the world, including Paul Weiss, A&O Shearman, Ashurst, O'Melveny & Myers, PwC, KKR, and many others.

Strategic investors : Raised over $200 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and the OpenAI Startup Fund.

World-class team : Harvey is hiring the best talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, FAIR, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, Figma, and more.

Partnerships : Our engineers and researchers work directly with OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.

Performance : 4x ARR in 2024.

Competitive compensation.

Role Overview

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. 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.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

What You'll Do

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

What You Have

3 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

Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

We are in the early innings of a generational company. Joining early at a hypergrowth startup has proven to lead to exponential growth in responsibility, access, and ability. Apply here today!

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