Description
Compensation
The annualized base salary ranges for the role are CA$164K – CA$225K. This role may be eligible for the Harvey Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh equity grants. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program. Benefits include comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.
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.
Role Overview
As a Backend Software Engineer at Harvey, you’ll play a pivotal role in constructing the foundation of our product platform while directly building user-facing features for some of the world’s 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 Harvey’s 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.
What You’ll Do
- 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
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