--- title: 'Staff/Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering at Harvey' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-sr-staff-software-engineer-product-engineering-harvey-san-francisco-k5jb3dsyt421' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-09' --- # Staff/Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering at Harvey - **Company:** [Harvey](https://feeny.ai/companies/harvey) - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey/7797d468-fabc-4bda-b861-726db7171f23 ## Job description ## 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 or Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Product Engineering team at Harvey, you will own and lead engineering projects that span multiple Product Engineering teams and product lines. You'll work closely with our AI, Legal, and GTM teams to build secure systems that deliver value to our customers. Product Engineering covers a lot of ground, and we're looking for engineers across multiple domains — backend, full stack, and AI. We want people who have built great products across consumer, enterprise, and everything in between, and who are excited about building the future of application layer and genAI products. You'll build both the surfaces where lawyers meet Harvey — web, mobile, and embedded experiences in Word, Outlook, and Slack — and the agentic capabilities that power them. This role can be based in New York City or San Francisco, with a hybrid schedule of three days a week in office. ## What You'll Do - Bring AI to where our customers already work: build Harvey across every surface — web, desktop, mobile, and embedded experiences (Google Docs, MS Word, Outlook, and Slack), and API. - Lead large, high-priority projects that span multiple teams, and define the technical bets we make over the next several quarters. - Find the problems that are business critical, prioritize ruthlessly, and make the big tradeoff calls without slowing anyone down. - Build AI-platform and AI-native capabilities — the agent harness, agent building (custom agents and workflows), tool calling, retrieval, memory and context management, personalization and tone, the thread experience, and the evals that turn model quality into product quality. - Ship the systems that make Harvey work: retrieval over petabyte-scale document corpora, ingestion growing 10x every six months, data collection across 50+ jurisdictions, and government-level security for the world's most sensitive matters. - Ship across the stack — React and TypeScript alongside Python and Postgres — architecting intuitive UX and robust APIs for streaming results, long-running processes, and complex tool-calling workflows. - Mentor senior and staff engineers, and raise the bar for how the whole org builds. ## What You Have - 10+ YoE (post-BS/MS) in a product-focused software engineering role, operating at Staff level or above. - Depth in full stack, backend, or agents/AI — and enough range to be useful outside it. - Experience building scalable, extensible systems that support multiple product lines. - Track record of shipping highly intuitive products in fast-growing SaaS, strong attention to detail. - Experience with React, TypeScript, CSS (we use TailwindCSS), Python, or related. For agents/AI, proficiency in Python plus hands-on work building and shipping agentic systems — agent harnesses/loops, tool use, memory, and evals — not just calling LLM APIs. - You embrace AI in how you build: AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar) are a core part of how you ship, and you have sharp instincts for where they accelerate work and where they fall short. - A history of influencing and aligning engineers and leaders well outside your direct scope. - Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge. - Grit — experience working at early-stage startups is a plus. ## Compensation $231,000 – $340,000 USD Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices [here](https://harveyai.notion.site/Harvey-Candidate-Privacy-Notices-319ac3fcdd7a803bb807d5094f249922?pvs=74). ## #LI-PM1 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 ## About Harvey ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Harvey builds domain-specific AI software for legal and professional services, enabling law firms and in-house teams to automate research, contract analysis, due diligence, and complex workflows. - **Entity Type**: Private (backed by leading venture capital firms) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Winston Weinberg (CEO), Gabriel Pereyra (President) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI software for legal and professional services (LegalTech) - **Target customers**: B2B – large law firms (AmLaw 100), in-house legal teams at Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-sized firms, and professional service networks across 60+ countries. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To enable legal and professional services teams to focus on high-value work by providing a secure, expert AI platform that handles research, drafting, and complex workflows. ## Products & Services - **Harvey Assistant**: Ask questions, analyze documents, and draft faster with domain-specific AI (SaaS). - **Harvey Vault**: Securely store, organize, and bulk-analyze legal documents (SaaS). - **Harvey Knowledge**: Research complex legal, regulatory, and tax questions across domains (SaaS). - **Harvey Agents**: Purpose-built agents that execute complex legal work end-to-end (SaaS). - **Harvey Contract Intelligence**: Surface insights, strengthen negotiations, and accelerate reviews (SaaS). - **Harvey Command Center**: Analytics, benchmarking, and agentic insights for leading AI transformation (SaaS). - **Harvey Mobile**: Mobile access to stay productive from anywhere (SaaS). - **Harvey Shared Spaces**: Collaborate with legal teams across organizations in secure shared workspaces (SaaS). - **Harvey Ecosystem**: Integration with existing tools to ground answers in trusted sources (API/platform). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (company is private). - **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) – reported in press but exact figure not disclosed; strong growth implied by 1,500+ customers and rapid hiring. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV (Google Ventures), OpenAI Startup Fund, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, EQT. - **Growth Signals**: - Named Time100 Most Influential Companies (2025). - LinkedIn Top 50 Startup of 2025. - CNBC Disruptor 50 List. - 1,500+ customers across 60+ countries, including AmLaw 100 firms. - Headcount: ~300 employees (as of mid-2025), with aggressive hiring (254 active job postings). - Office expansion: San Francisco, New York City, London. ## Competitive Advantages - **Domain specialization**: AI models trained specifically for legal and professional services, not generic LLMs. - **Enterprise security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, GDPR, CCPA compliance – meeting law firm security requirements. - **Deep investor backing**: World-class VC network provides strategic guidance and access. - **Strong product‑market fit**: Rapid adoption by top-tier law firms and in-house teams, with high switching costs due to embedded workflows. - **First‑mover in agentic legal AI**: Purpose‑built agents execute end‑to‑end tasks, differentiating from simple document Q&A tools. ## Strategic Focus - **Customization, collaboration, and simplicity**: Helping teams embed expertise into Harvey, collaborate across firms, and reduce complexity via agentic workflows. - **Expansion beyond legal**: Long‑term ambition to transform professional services broadly (consulting, accounting, etc.). - **Product innovation**: Continued investment in agentic AI, mobile access, and ecosystem integrations. - **Global growth**: Scaling sales and engineering teams in existing hubs and expanding into new markets. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Fast‑paced, collaborative, ambitious. Values include **Decisiveness** (“take the square root of the weather” – avoid overanalysis), **Simplicity**, and **Job’s Not Finished** (continuous improvement). - **Work environment**: Hybrid – 3+ days per week in office for roles based in San Francisco, New York City, or London. Some fully remote positions available (clearly marked). - **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) match, paid parental leave (immediately eligible), annual professional development stipend, in‑office daily lunch, and more. - **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling (~300 employees, 254 open roles) provides internal mobility and ownership of impactful projects. - **Engineering culture**: Strong blend of AI research (DeepMind background) and legal domain expertise. CTO Siva Gurumurthy recently joined. Emphasis on building secure, enterprise‑grade products. ## Sources 1. [harvey.ai](https://www.harvey.ai/) 2. [harvey.ai/company](https://www.harvey.ai/company) 3. [harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey](https://www.harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey) 4. [linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai) 5. 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