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About the Role

Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services work gets done. As AI moves from answering questions to carrying out complex workflows, the engineering challenge expands: every interaction depends on systems that can handle sensitive data, stream results, coordinate work, and stay fast and reliable under growing demand. Backend Platform builds the shared foundations that make this possible. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team shaping how backend software is built at Harvey. Your team owns the frameworks, libraries, and core abstractions that product engineers use every day—from database access and caching to request handling, observability, and safe context propagation. A better abstraction here can accelerate every product team. A stronger default can prevent an entire class of production failures. The impact of your decisions compounds across the engineering organization. The next chapter is especially compelling. As both engineers and coding agents contribute more software, we need a platform that makes the right patterns easy to use and the wrong ones difficult to introduce. You’ll help define that foundation: clear architectural boundaries, reusable building blocks, and automated safeguards that let teams ship with confidence. You’ll tackle deep systems problems while building an engineering experience people love. This is a technical leadership role with room to shape both the platform and the team. You’ll hire and develop exceptional engineers, set the technical direction, and stay close to architecture and code. If you enjoy turning hard, recurring problems into simple tools that make everyone around you more effective, this is an opportunity to do it at the center of Harvey’s growth.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the Backend Platform team, including hiring, coaching, and retaining engineers.
Define the platform’s technical vision and roadmap in partnership with product engineering teams.
Build the next generation of Harvey’s backend foundations, guiding the design of shared frameworks.
Work with Infrastructure to evolve how applications use databases, replicas, and new storage systems.
Build a data access layer to facilitate entity migration between different data stores.
Implement reliability measures such as load testing, circuit breakers, and noisy-neighbor isolation.
Partner with Security and product teams to ensure safe handling of customer data and workspace isolation.
Establish modular boundaries, enforceable contracts, and automated checks for confident code development.
Reduce latency, improve observability, and make production issues easier to diagnose.
Lead architecture discussions, review critical code, and prototype solutions when necessary.
Partner closely with Infrastructure, Developer Platform, Model Infrastructure, Security, and product engineering leaders.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience.
3+ years of engineering management experience.
Track record of building strong teams and delivering complex backend or platform systems.
Deep technical judgment in backend architecture and distributed systems.
Experience building shared libraries, frameworks, or internal platforms adopted by multiple engineering teams.
Technical depth to engage directly in design and code reviews, investigate difficult systems problems, and guide migrations.
Track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
Setting clear expectations and creating a culture of ownership and thoughtful execution.
Strong product instincts for developer tools.
Experience embedding reliability, observability, and security into shared systems.
Clear communication and ability to lead across team boundaries.
Align people on technical tradeoffs and drive changes from design through rollout.
Serious, hands-on use of AI coding agents, and opinions on what makes a codebase safe for them to work in.

Skills

Backend architecture
Distributed systems
Database access patterns
Concurrency
Caching
API design
Performance optimization
Python
Flask
FastAPI
Reliability
Observability
Security
AI coding agents

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Manager
Senior

Salary/Compensations

$272,000 - $355,000 USD

About the Company

Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate.
We combine frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.
We are reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done.
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.
Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission.
We operate with intensity, stay close to our customers, and push each other for excellence.
We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished.
The future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

Equal Opportunity

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