资深软件工程师，后端
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
为什么选择哈维
在哈维，我们正在改变法律和专业服务的运作方式。通过结合前沿的代理AI、企业级平台和深厚的行业专业知识，我们正在重塑未来几十年关键知识工作的完成方式。
这是一个难得的机会，帮助打造一家具有时代意义的公司，在真正的转折点上共同成长。我们拥有强大的产品市场匹配度和世界级的投资支持。我们正在快速扩展，并实时定义一个新类别。工作充满雄心，标准很高，个人、职业和财务上的成长机会无与伦比。
我们的团队行动迅速，承担责任，并对使命有深刻承诺——以高强度运作，贴近客户，不断追求卓越。我们秉持三个价值观：果断、简洁、工作未完成。我们基于清晰的判断快速行动，而非等待完美信息；我们相信简洁才是可扩展的关键；我们从不满足于现状。如果你希望与志同道合的人一起完成职业生涯中最出色的工作，我们期待与你携手共创。
在哈维，专业服务的未来正在今天被书写——而我们才刚刚开始。
职位概述
作为哈维的资深后端软件工程师，你将在塑造我们产品平台的基础方面发挥关键作用，同时直接为全球领先的律师事务所和企业客户构建用户界面功能。该团队负责并运营支撑安全、可靠和灵活客户体验的平台层，包括通知、权限和功能标志基础设施。我们还为律师事务所构建企业级协作体验。
你将设计并主导系统，这些系统不仅作为公司其他部门的关键基础设施，还将直接影响用户如何与哈维的AI驱动的法律工具互动。这个职位非常适合那些热衷于在深入的平台思维和实际的产品迭代之间切换的工程师。
该职位位于加拿大多伦多。我们采用线下办公模式，并为新员工提供搬迁协助。
你将负责
- 设计和构建基础后端基础设施，包括身份验证、权限管理、功能标志、通知和文档管理集成
- 构建和优化哈维的内部产品平台，加快多个产品线和工程团队的开发进度
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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 Staff Backend 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 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.
This role is based in Toronto, Canada. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design and build foundational backend 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
- 5+ years (post-BS/MS) of backend-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
- Experience building backend platforms that can support multiple product lines
- Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge
WHAT WE OFFER
- Be part of building something special as a founding member of our Toronto team
- Structured hybrid working arrangement: 3 days in our Toronto office, 2 days working from home
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Location: Toronto, Ontario (Hybrid with flexibility)
- Work eligibility: Must have valid Canadian work rights; Harvey does not currently offer visa sponsorship for this role
COMPENSATION
CA $196,800 - CA $270,600
We are an AI company and we use AI to improve all of our processes, including in the recruitment process. Whilst we do use AI to help improve efficiency in our recruitment process, we do not rely on AI to make any automated decisions and ensure that a human reviews AI output.
DEPENDING ON YOUR LOCATION, AN APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE MAY APPLY TO YOU. YOU CAN FIND ALL OF OUR APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICES [HERE https://www.notion.so/harveyai/Harvey-Candidate-Privacy-Policies-319ac3fcdd7a803bb807d5094f249922].
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The annualized base salary ranges for the role are listed below. Harvey pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Harvey Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh equity grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things.
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 committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai