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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey

Toronto, Canada

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Posted: August 30th, 2025

Job Description

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Why Harvey

Harvey is a secure AI platform for legal and professional services that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. It uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs, customized and developed by a team of lawyers, engineers, and research scientists. Harvey has achieved product-market fit and is scaling rapidly. Reasons to join include:

  • Exceptional product market fit: Partnered with top law firms and service providers like Paul Weiss, A&O Shearman, Ashurst, O'Melveny & Myers, PwC, KKR, and others.
  • Strategic investors: Raised over $500 million from Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI.
  • World-class team: Hiring talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, FAIR, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, Figma, and more.
  • Partnerships: Collaborating with OpenAI to advance generative AI in professional services.
  • Performance: 4x ARR growth in 2024.
  • Competitive compensation.

Role Overview

As a Staff Backend Software Engineer at Harvey, you will shape our product platform and build user-facing features for leading law firms and enterprise clients. You will own systems that provide secure, reliable experiences, including notifications, permissions, and enterprise collaboration tools. This role involves both platform architecture and hands-on product development, ideal for engineers excited about deep platform work and product impact.

This position is based in Toronto, Canada, with an in-person work model and relocation support.

What You’ll Do

  • Design and develop backend infrastructure: authentication, permissions, feature flags, notifications, document management integrations.
  • Enhance Harvey’s internal product platform to support multiple product lines and teams.
  • Lead development of enterprise features: secure collaboration, cross-organization workflows, admin controls.
  • Ensure high standards for security, privacy, and system reliability, especially with legal data.
  • Collaborate with product, AI, design, and GTM teams to deliver enterprise-ready experiences.

What You Have

  • 5+ years of backend-focused software engineering experience on platform or product teams.
  • Experience shipping user-facing features with measurable impact.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, databases, scalable architectures.
  • Interest or familiarity with enterprise SaaS patterns like RBAC, feature flags, integrations.
  • Proven ability to ship intuitive products with attention to detail.
  • Experience supporting multiple product lines with backend platforms.
  • Strong programming skills and CS fundamentals.

What We Offer

  • Be a founding member of our Toronto team.
  • Hybrid work: 3 days in-office, 2 days remote.

Additional Information

  • Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid with flexibility).
  • Work eligibility: Valid Canadian work rights required; no visa sponsorship offered.

Harvey uses AI in its processes, including recruitment, but all decisions are reviewed by humans. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and providing accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

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