Software Engineer, Backend

Company: harvey.ai
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 31, 2025

Job Description:

Why HarveyHarvey is a secure AI platform for professionals in law, tax, and finance 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 , , O'Melveny & Myers, , KKR, and many others.
• Strategic investors: Raised over from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and the OpenAI Startup Fund.
• World-class team: Harvey is hiring the best 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: $0-30M ARR in the last 18 months.
• Compensation: Top of market cash and equity compensation.Role OverviewAs 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
  • Integrate traditional SaaS with AI Applications: develop end-to-end features touching all parts of the stack to enable AI workflow and tasks.
  • Zero-to-one product development: rapidly prototype, evaluate, and integrate new product features and custom projects for our customers.
  • Ship secure and compliant code: implement security concepts to develop software dealing with sensitive data, work with the security teams choosing what to build vs buy.
  • Develop new AI native workflows: implement streaming, long-running tasks, procedural UX, etc. for new AI tasks, finding the balance between state-of-the-art and pragmatism.
  • Growth and delivering customer value: Demonstrate an understanding of user behavior, funnels, marketing channels, and mobile to fuel creative design.What You Have
    • 3+ 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.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.
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