# Staff Software Engineer, Backend

**Company**: Harvey
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: CA$196.8K – CA$270.6K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Compensation

The annualized base salary ranges for the role are CA$196.8K – CA$270.6K. This role may be eligible for the Harvey Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh equity grants.

## 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.

## Role Overview

As a Staff Backend Software Engineer at Harvey, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping 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.

## 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

- 10+ 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

- Track record of shipping highly intuitive products, 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

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- REST/gRPC APIs
- databases
- scalable service architectures
- enterprise SaaS patterns
- role-based access control (RBAC)
- feature flag systems
- third-party integrations

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