Harvey
Senior Engineering Manager, Backend Platform
$272K–$355K
New York · 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 the Backend Platform team and develops shared backend foundations, architecture, and safeguards that help Harvey’s engineering teams build reliable, secure, scalable products.
What you'll do
- Hire, coach, and grow engineers while setting the platform’s technical vision and roadmap.
- Guide shared frameworks and data-layer improvements, including database access, caching, request handling, and streaming.
- Improve reliability, security, observability, and developer productivity through architecture, code review, and automated safeguards.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years of engineering management experience.
- 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.
- Track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers, and embedding reliability, observability, and security into shared systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with Python and frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI.
- Serious, 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
Help establish codebase boundaries, contracts, and automated checks so engineers and AI coding agents can make changes confidently and safely.
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