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Staff Software Engineer, OfficeJS

AI summary of the role

Staff Software Engineer owning the technical direction of Harvey in Word, a flagship Office Add-in that brings AI-powered drafting, redlining, and playbook automation into Microsoft Word for legal professionals.

What you’ll do

  • Own and lead the technical direction of Harvey in Word, our flagship Office Add-in product, alongside our other Microsoft Office integrations.
  • Build the AI-native editing experience: agentic document rewrites, real-time redlining, and playbook automation that transforms how lawyers work.
  • Design and build sophisticated integrations with Microsoft Word using the OfficeJS API, including document manipulation, playbook reviews, and AI-assisted drafting.
  • Architect scalable, maintainable solutions that handle the constraints and quirks of the Office Add-in environment across platforms (Windows, Mac, Web).

What you’ll bring

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in Office Add-in development using OfficeJS.
  • Experience building and shipping a production Office Add-in product, ideally one used at enterprise scale.
  • Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Deep understanding of Office Add-in architecture, requirement sets, manifest configuration, and cross-platform considerations.

Technologies

OfficeJS · Office Add-in · JavaScript · TypeScript · HTML · CSS · React · Microsoft Word · Outlook · AppSource

About Harvey

Agentic AI platform purpose-built for elite law firms and in-house legal teams to automate research, drafting, document review, and complex matter workflows.

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information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started. Role Overview Legal professionals spend most of their day in Microsoft Word: drafting, reviewing, and refining complex documents that shape meaningful outcomes. Harvey in Word brings AI-powered capabilities directly into Word, enabling lawyers to draft faster, run playbook reviews, and perform agentic editing, all without leaving their workflow. It's one of our most strategic product lines and a key part of how we meet lawyers where they already work. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Embedded Experiences team, you will own and lead the development of Harvey in Word, our
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