# Senior Engineering Manager, Backend Platform at Harvey

- Company: Harvey
- What the company does: Legal AI tailored for leading law firms and corporate legal teams worldwide. Harvey streamlines contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.harvey.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $272K to $355K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-21
- Apply by: 2026-12-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey/de1d9fbe-c7a9-49ac-b5c0-aaaa606325b2?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/harvey-senior-engineering-manager-backend-platform-2/

## 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## 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 platform systems
- 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. You know how to balance a useful abstraction with the flexibility its users need
- The technical depth to engage directly in design and code reviews, investigate difficult systems problems, and guide migrations across a large, evolving codebase. Experience with Python and frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI is valuable
- A 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. You listen closely to engineers, understand where they lose time, and turn that feedback into simpler, more effective ways to build

Tags: Engineering

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