Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey
Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Distributed systems","REST","GRPC","APIs","RBAC","Authentication","Permissions","Feature flags","Notifications"]

Backend-focused software engineer building foundational platform infrastructure for Harvey’s AI-powered legal tools. Design and evolve the internal product platform, shipping enterprise-ready features, while ensuring security, privacy, and reliability. Work across product lines with cross-functional teams in a hybrid Toronto setup to deliver scalable backend services for leading law firms and enterprise customers.

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Harvey
Harvey
3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Job Summary

Backend-focused software engineer building foundational platform infrastructure for Harvey’s AI-powered legal tools. Design and evolve the internal product platform, shipping enterprise-ready features, while ensuring security, privacy, and reliability. Work across product lines with cross-functional teams in a hybrid Toronto setup to deliver scalable backend services for leading law firms and enterprise customers.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •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

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years (post-BS/MS) backend-focused software engineering experience on platform and/or product-oriented teams
  • •Experience shipping user-facing features across the stack with measurable impact
  • •Strong knowledge of distributed systems, REST/gRPC APIs, databases, and scalable service architectures
  • •Familiarity with enterprise SaaS patterns such as RBAC, feature flag systems, and third-party integrations is a plus
  • •Strong attention to detail
Experience:4+ yearsEnterprise SaaSAILegal techSoftware engineering
Skills:Distributed systemsRESTGRPCAPIsRBACAuthenticationPermissionsFeature flagsNotifications
Tech Stack:RESTGRPCDatabasesRBACAuthenticationFeature Flags

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Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Harvey
Harvey builds domain-specific generative AI for legal and professional services, automating contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation workflows for law firms and corporate legal teams.
Industry: LegalTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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