Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

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 Staff Frontend Software Engineer at Harvey, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the foundation of our product platform while directly building user-facing features for some of the world’s leading law firms and enterprise customers. This team owns and operates the platform layer that enables secure, reliable, and flexible experiences for our customers including notifications, permissions and feature flag infrastructure. We also build enterprise-grade collaboration product experiences for law firms.

You will design and own systems that not only serve as critical infrastructure for the rest of the company, but also directly impact how our users engage with Harvey’s AI-powered legal tools. This role is ideal for engineers who are excited by the opportunity to move between deep platform thinking and hands-on product iteration.

What You'll Do

• Design and build foundational infrastructure including authentication, permissions, feature flagging, notifications, and document management integrations

• Build and evolve Harvey’s internal product platform, accelerating development across multiple product lines and engineering teams

• Lead development of enterprise-facing features, such as secure multi-party collaboration, cross-organization workflows, and robust admin controls

• Maintain high standards for security, privacy, and system reliability, particularly in handling sensitive legal data

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, AI, design, and GTM teams to deliver delightful, enterprise-ready experiences

What You Have

• 6+ years (post-BS/MS) of frontend-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

• Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge

Compensation Range

$220,000 - $280,000 USD

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