Senior Engineering Manager, Backend

At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were 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. Were 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 Jobs Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information we believe simplicity is what scales and were never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive wed love to build with you.

At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.

Harvey is redefining whats possible in legal work by combining cutting-edge AI with intuitive product experiences. As we scale rapidly and take on increasingly complex use cases were expanding our product engineering team to accelerate our ability to ship fast delight users and build infrastructure that scales with us.

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Product Engineering youll lead teams of backend engineers building the core product surfaces that lawyers and legal professionals use every dayfrom complex workflows and collaboration tools to elegant user interfaces powered by sophisticated backend systems. This role is equal parts product intuition and technical execution. Youll be trusted to make fast high-quality decisions ship impactful features and grow a team that embodies engineering excellence.

We move with urgency bias toward simplicity and expect our leaders to be hands-on when needed. If youre energized by ownership decisive execution and solving real user problems wed love to hear from you.

• Lead engineers define build and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for user-facing features across our product.

• Collaborate closely with Design Product and AI teams to identify and execute on high-impact initiatives.

• Help define and evolve the architecture for a fast-moving AI-powered application.

• Hire grow and retain exceptional engineers who thrive in a high-trust high-impact environment.

• Foster a culture of simplicity quality and continuous improvement.

• Contribute to code and architecture reviews unblock teams and lead by example when needed.

• Work closely with cross-functional partners to align product initiatives with company goals.

• 3 years of experience in a software engineering management role leading product engineering teams preferably in high-growth environments.

• 12 years of software engineering experience as a backend engineer.

• A track record of leading high-performing engaged engineering teams.

• Strong product sense and an instinct for balancing speed quality and user impact.

• Experience with backend systems (e.g. Python Java Go) and modern cloud-native infrastructure.

• A plus: Exposure to AI-powered applications or complex internal tools.

• Ability to anticipate scaling bottlenecks before they occur and take decisive proactive measures.

• Experience building RAG pipelines and managing the data lifecycle.

• Work eligibility: Must be authorized to work in India. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin disability age genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition or any other basis protected by law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made by emailing

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