Senior Engineering Manager, Backend
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Harvey is an AI platform for legal and professional-services organizations.
Series F+Recently funded
Distributed
About Harvey
Harvey provides agents and collaborative tools for legal work, including legal research, document analysis, secure workspaces, contract intelligence, and organization-level analytics.
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About the Role
You will lead teams of backend engineers building core product surfaces for legal professionals. You will drive multi-quarter technical strategy, shape architecture of an AI-powered application, hire and grow engineers, and contribute to code and architecture reviews.
Requirements
- 3+ years in software engineering management leading product engineering teams
- 6+ years as a backend engineer
- Track record of leading high-performing teams
- Strong product sense
- Experience with backend systems (Python, Java, Go) and cloud-native infrastructure
- Ability to anticipate scaling bottlenecks
- Experience building RAG pipelines and managing the data lifecycle
- Authorized to work in India; no visa sponsorship
Responsibilities
- Lead engineers to define and drive multi-quarter technical strategy for user-facing features
- Collaborate with Design, Product and AI teams
- Define and evolve architecture for an AI-powered application
- Hire, grow and retain engineers
- Foster a culture of simplicity, quality and continuous improvement
- Contribute to code and architecture reviews
- Align product initiatives with company goals
