Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Staff Software Engineer role sits at a common SaaS inflection point: taking a proven platform and extending it into the tools customers already live in. Building embedded experiences for Microsoft Word and Outlook reflects a broader enterprise SaaS trend toward workflow-native delivery, where adoption depends as much on integration quality as on core product capability, especially for AI-enabled products.
For a SaaS engineering career, the work maps to durable themes: designing APIs and backend systems that must operate across heterogeneous customer environments, maintaining reliability while product surfaces evolve, and translating real workflow feedback into technical decisions. It also offers exposure to the engineering challenges that appear when SaaS moves beyond a single web app into ecosystems with strict constraints, distribution requirements, and enterprise platform dependencies.
The position best suits senior engineers who prefer end-to-end ownership over a defined domain and are comfortable shaping scope when requirements are still being discovered. It will appeal to those who like operating close to customer workflows, enjoy integration-heavy problem solving, and want to apply strong system design judgment to product lines that broaden a SaaS platform’s reach beyond its initial buyer segment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Why Harvey
At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. 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. With 1000+ customers in 58+ countries, 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.
Our team is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle — from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers — from leadership to engineers — and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity, push for excellence, and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar, we invite you to build with us.
At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
Role Overview
The Embedded Experience team operates like an internal innovation lab at Harvey, focused on expanding our core capabilities into adjacent markets beyond traditional law firms — including private equity, Big Four, technology companies, and other professional services. The team builds first-of-their-kind products that embed Harvey directly into the tools professionals already use, such as Outlook and Microsoft Word.
As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you’ll own critical backend systems that power these embedded experiences and play a central role in shaping how Harvey expands into new customer segments. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role with deep customer interaction, where your technical judgment will directly influence product direction, system design, and the long-term foundations of new offerings.
What You'll Do
Own and lead the backend architecture for Harvey’s embedded experiences, including integrations with enterprise platforms like Microsoft Word and Outlook.
Design and build scalable, reliable backend systems and APIs that support AI-powered workflows across diverse customer environments.
Partner directly with customers to deeply understand their workflows, validate hypotheses, and translate insights into durable, extensible product features.
Drive technical decisions in a high-autonomy environment, where problem definition, scope, and success metrics are often shaped by the team rather than handed down.
Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers to shape cohesive, high-quality embedded experiences.
Navigate ambiguity and help define new products and technical foundations for customer segments that are new to Harvey.
Mentor engineers and raise the bar on system design, code quality, and engineering judgment across the team.
What You Have
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend or backend-leaning fullstack development.
A strong track record of designing and building scalable, production-grade systems—including backend systems, APIs, services, and infrastructure for complex, distributed, or latency-sensitive applications—in SaaS or high-growth environments.
Comfort working close to the product surface and directly with customers, translating qualitative feedback into technical solutions.
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, design, and customer-facing teams.
Excellent context-switching abilities and comfort operating in ambiguous, exploratory problem spaces.
A bias toward ownership and action.
Nice to Have
Experience building embedded applications or deep integrations (e.g., Office add-ins, browser extensions, IDE plugins, or similar).
Experience building in TypeScript and/or Python
Background in building or shipping products that integrate with AI or LLM-based systems.
Experience working with Microsoft 365 integrations or enterprise SaaS platforms.
Familiarity with private equity, Big Four, or other professional services workflow
Compensation
$238,000 - $312,000 USD
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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 accommodations@harvey.ai
