Harvey
Senior Engineering Manager, Backend Platform
$272K–$355K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years of engineering management experience.
About the job
Leads Harvey’s Backend Platform team in building shared backend foundations, improving reliability and security, and enabling product engineers and AI coding agents to develop and ship software confidently.
What you'll do
- Hire, coach, and grow the team while setting its technical vision and roadmap.
- Guide shared backend frameworks and data-layer improvements, including database access, caching, request handling, and streaming.
- Improve platform reliability, security, performance, and developer experience through architecture, safeguards, and cross-team collaboration.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years of engineering management experience.
- Deep knowledge of backend architecture and distributed systems, including database access, concurrency, caching, API design, and performance.
- Experience building shared libraries, frameworks, or internal platforms used by multiple engineering teams.
- Track record of hiring and developing engineers and delivering complex backend or platform systems.
Nice to have
- Python and frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI.
- Hands-on use of AI coding agents and opinions on making codebases safe for them.
Pay
$272,000 - $355,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Flask, FastAPI, KV, NoSQL
AI focus
Shape backend foundations and automated safeguards so engineers and AI coding agents can build and ship confidently; requires serious, hands-on use of AI coding agents.
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