Senior Engineering Manager, Backend Platform

The role

You will lead the Backend Platform team to build shared frameworks, libraries, and core abstractions. You will define technical vision, scale the data layer, and improve platform reliability and security.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the Backend Platform team.
• Define the platform's technical vision and roadmap.
• Build the next generation of Harvey's backend foundations.
• Help Harvey scale through better architecture.
• Scale the data layer.
• Add circuit breakers, standard outbound clients, and noisy-neighbor isolation.
• Partner with Security and product teams on data handling and workspace isolation.
• Shape a codebase for humans and AI to build in.
• Reduce latency and improve observability.
• Lead architecture discussions and review critical code.

Required qualifications

• 6+ 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
• Technical depth to engage in design and code reviews and investigate systems problems
• Track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
• Strong product instincts for developer tools
• Experience embedding reliability, observability, and security into shared systems
• Clear communication and ability to lead across team boundaries
• Serious, hands-on use of AI coding agents

Nice to have

• Experience with Python and frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI

About the company

Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.