You make one call, we make the rest. Harper learns your business, works every market that can write it, and brings back the right coverage at the right price. Backed by Peak XV, Y Combinator and Antler.
About the role
This role is open both to an experienced EM and to someone on the path to becoming an EM who doesn't yet have significant management experience—we're happy to bring that person on and support the transition.
What they're looking for
- Have at least 2 years as a line manager directly managing teams of six to ten people—or clear readiness to grow into that role
- You've been a line manager for at least two years, directly managing teams of six to ten people—or you're on a clear path there and want to grow into it
- You have hands-on experience with AWS or GCP and strong database troubleshooting skills
- You've seen real scale—on the order of at least a million requests per minute
- You can troubleshoot across databases, networking, compute, Docker, Kubernetes, and other aspects of infrastructure
- You care as much about developer productivity and AI tooling as you do about raw infrastructure
More about this role
36 million businesses in America need insurance—it's not optional. 77% are underinsured. 40% have no coverage at all. The distribution system failed them: too slow, too opaque, too confusing.
Over 90% of commercial insurance is still human-led. We're building the inverse: 90%+ AI-led, pushing toward the higher 90s. Not by patching legacy workflows—by building AI that makes humans more effective, improves the customer experience, and eliminates friction at every step.
We're adding ~1,000 customers per month. We've grown 100x since last year. We're looking to do even more this year—and that's why we're hiring.
You'll build the team and the systems the rest of engineering depends on. When they compound, everyone gets faster.
Harper runs 200+ services across Railway and AWS. We orchestrate N parallel agentic workloads. Our AI systems make thousands of decisions a day, and every decision needs to be traceable, evaluated, and cheaper to run tomorrow than it is today. The infrastructure underneath all of that is the difference between a company that scales and one that stalls.
Great platform engineering here isn't invisible—it's the reason product ships fast. When observability catches a...
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