Senior Engineering Manager, Backend Platform

Job summary

Responsibilities

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…

• Lead and grow the Backend Platform team. Hire, coach, and retain exceptional engineers, giving them clear ownership, meaningful technical challenges, and room to grow.
• Define the platform’s technical vision and roadmap. Partner with product engineering teams to understand their hardest problems, identify the investments with the broadest…
• Build the next generation of Harvey’s backend foundations. Guide the design of shared frameworks for database access, session management, caching, request handling, and…
• Help Harvey scale through better architecture. Work with Infrastructure to evolve how applications use databases, replicas, and new storage systems, making those capabilities…
• Scale the data layer. Build a data access layer so an entity can move to a new store (KV, NoSQL) without product changes.

What they're looking for

• 6+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of building strong teams and delivering complex backend or…
• Deep technical judgment in backend architecture and distributed systems, including database access patterns, concurrency, caching, API design, and performance.
• Experience building shared libraries, frameworks, or internal platforms adopted by multiple engineering teams.
• The technical depth to engage directly in design and code reviews, investigate difficult systems problems, and guide migrations across a large, evolving codebase.
• A track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers, setting clear expectations, and creating a culture of ownership and thoughtful execution.

Tech stack

• Python
• FastAPI