Harvey
Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco · New York
- Published
- Oct 21, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 26, 2026
About this role
WHY HARVEY
At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.
This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.
Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.
At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Backend Platform Engineer at Harvey, you will help build and operate the cohesive backend platform that all our services run on. You’ll design and implement shared frameworks and libraries that abstract common concerns, improve developer experience, and raise the baseline for reliability and performance across all teams.
Your mission aligns with our platform charter: create “a shared foundation that enables product teams to ship reliable, observable, and performant experiences quickly and safely.” By centralizing common work, you’ll let product engineers focus on shipping features rather than re-inventing the wheel. This is a high-impact role where the code you write and the systems you build will amplify the productivity and quality of engineering across the entire company.