Senior Engineering Manager, Backend Platform

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. 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. We have 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 moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values:
Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect 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.

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 r 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.

• 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 impact, and deliver improvements they can feel in their daily work.
• Build the next generation of Harvey’s backend foundations. Guide the design of shared frameworks for database access, session management, caching, request handling, and streaming—
• Help Harvey scale through better architecture. Work with Infrastructure to evolve how applications use databases, replicas, and new storage systems, making those capabilities accessible…