Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Why Harvey

At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were 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. Were 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 Jobs Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information we believe simplicity is what scales and were never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive wed love to build with you.

At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.

Role Overview

As a Backend Software Engineer at Harvey youll play a pivotal role in constructing the foundation of our product platform while directly building user-facing features for some of the worlds 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 systems that not only serve as critical infrastructure for the rest of the company but also directly impact how our users engage with Harveys 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 a hybrid 3 days-per week in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

What Youll Do

• Design and build foundational backend infrastructure including authentication permissions feature flagging notifications and document management integrations

• Build and evolve Harveys 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

• 4 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 is a plus

• 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

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.

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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 candidates 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

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Key Skills
Spring,.NET,C/C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,AWS,Data Structures,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems
Employment Type : Full-Time
Department / Functional Area: Engineering
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1