Why Harvey

Harvey is a secure AI platform for legal and professional services 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:

• 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 $500 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and OpenAI.
• 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

• 6+ 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