Staff Frontend Software Engineer

About The Company

Harvey is a cutting-edge AI platform dedicated to transforming legal and professional services through advanced automation and productivity enhancement. Our platform leverages sophisticated algorithms and reasoning-adept large language models (LLMs) that are meticulously customized and developed by a team of expert lawyers, engineers, and research scientists. Harvey has established a strong product-market fit by partnering with some of the world's largest law firms and professional service providers, including Paul Weiss, Allen & Overy, Ashurst, O'Melveny & Myers, PwC, KKR, and many others. Our strategic investors include Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and OpenAI, having raised over $500 million to support our growth and innovation. We pride ourselves on assembling a world-class team from renowned organizations such as DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, and Figma. Our collaborations with OpenAI and other industry leaders enable us to stay at the forefront of generative AI development. With a performance milestone of quadrupling our annual recurring revenue in 2024, Harvey offers a dynamic environment for talented professionals eager to shape the future of AI-powered legal services.

About The Role

As a Staff Frontend Software Engineer at Harvey, you will play a critical role in shaping the core of our product platform while directly developing user-facing features for top-tier law firms and enterprise clients. Your responsibilities will include designing and maintaining the platform infrastructure that ensures secure, reliable, and flexible user experiences, including notifications, permissions, feature flag systems, and document management integrations. You will lead initiatives to build enterprise-grade collaboration tools such as secure multi-party workflows, cross-organizational processes, and comprehensive administrative controls. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of deep platform architecture and hands-on product development, impacting how users interact with Harvey’s AI-driven legal tools. Based in Toronto, Canada, this role follows a hybrid work model with three or more days in the office per week and offers relocation assistance for new hires eager to join our innovative team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend-focused software engineering experience, preferably within platform or product teams
• Proficiency in designing and shipping user-facing features with measurable impact
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, REST/gRPC APIs, databases, and scalable service architectures
• Familiarity with enterprise SaaS patterns such as role-based access control (RBAC), feature flag systems, and third-party integrations

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• Proven track record of delivering highly intuitive and user-centric products
• Excellent programming skills and solid foundation in Computer Science principles
• Experience working across the full technology stack is preferred
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to high standards of security, privacy, and system reliability
  
  

Responsibilities

• Design and develop foundational infrastructure components including authentication, permissions, notifications, and document management integrations
• Build and enhance Harvey’s internal product platform to accelerate development across various product lines and engineering teams

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• Lead the development of enterprise features such as secure multi-party collaboration, cross-organization workflows, and administrative controls
• Maintain high standards for security, privacy, and system reliability, especially in handling sensitive legal data
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including product managers, AI researchers, designers, and go-to-market teams to deliver seamless, enterprise-ready solutions
• Continuously evaluate and improve system architecture to ensure scalability, security, and performance
  
  

Benefits

• Opportunity to be a founding member of Harvey’s Toronto team and influence company growth

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• Structured hybrid working environment with a balance of in-office and remote work
• Competitive compensation packages aligned with industry standards
• Engagement with innovative AI technology and collaboration with industry leaders
• Relocation assistance for qualified candidates
• Professional development and growth opportunities within a rapidly scaling organization
  
  

Equal Opportunity

Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, or any other protected status by law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Requests for accommodations can be made by emailing interview-help@harvey.ai.