# Staff Software Engineer, Backend

**Company:** [Harvey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/harvey)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $238k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Python, Postgres, CSS
**Posted:** 2026-06-22

> Own and lead engineering projects on the Product Engineering team, building secure AI-native systems across the stack with React/TypeScript and Python/Postgres.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Scale document ingestion and processing that is growing at 10x every 6 months
- Design massive data collection from over 50+ legal jurisdictions
- Build government-level security for top governments and firms
- Lead projects that delight customers in bringing AI to web, desktop, mobile, Google Docs, MS Word, and API experiences
- Build AI-platform and AI-native features like agentic orchestration layers, tool calls, and retrieval systems
- Ship across the full stack—leveraging React and TypeScript on the frontend alongside Python and Postgres on the backend—to architect intuitive UX and robust APIs for streaming results, long-running processes, and complex tool-calling workflows

## What You Have
- 7+ YoE (post-BS/MS) in a product focused full-stack software engineering role
- Experience with React, Typescript, CSS (we use TailwindCSS), Python, or related
- Track record of building fast-growing SaaS products
- Track record of shipping highly intuitive products, strong attention to detail
- Experience building scalable and extensible solutions across the stack that can support multiple product lines
- Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge
- Grit - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus

## Similar roles

- [Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/ffd8333c-6920-488c-abf8-432b2e7f3abd) - Harvey - San Francisco, CA - $238k – $290k/yr
- [Staff Engineer, Product Engineering](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6e03fb62-9e73-4575-83de-4aea190c8e94) - Vanta - Remote - $238k – $280k/yr
- [Staff Design Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/c86f556b-9513-457e-93c3-9895f0d3ee6f) - Mixpanel - Remote - $236k – $300k/yr
- [Staff Fullstack Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/37cfbd15-ea0f-4d58-bf1a-3973351b0c05) - Snowflake - Menlo Park, CA - $236k – $339k/yr
- [Staff Software Engineer, Banking](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6682e703-8ef7-4578-b19d-4098e1f4f2bb) - Brex - Seattle, WA - $240k – $285k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5350497f-c0fe-4cb7-a853-224c1b00beec
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5350497f-c0fe-4cb7-a853-224c1b00beec