Senior Engineering Manager, Backend
Remote • Bengaluru • FullTime
Posted 2d ago
About the job
Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise. As we scale rapidly and take on increasingly complex use cases, we’re 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, you’ll lead teams of backend engineers building the core product surfaces that lawyers and legal professionals use every day. This role is equal parts product intuition and technical execution, where you’ll be trusted to make fast, high-quality decisions, ship impactful features, and grow a team that embodies engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineers to define, build, and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for user-facing features.
- Collaborate with Design, Product, and AI teams on high-impact initiatives.
- Help define and evolve the architecture for an AI-powered application.
- Hire, grow, and retain exceptional engineers.
- Foster a culture of simplicity, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to code and architecture reviews, unblock teams, and lead by example.
- Align product initiatives with company goals with cross-functional partners.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a software engineering management role leading product engineering teams.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience as a backend engineer.
- Track record of leading high-performing, engaged engineering teams.
- Strong product sense and ability to balance speed, quality, and user impact.
- Experience with backend systems (e.g., Python, Java, Go) and modern cloud-native infrastructure.
- Ability to anticipate scaling bottlenecks and take proactive measures.
- Experience building RAG pipelines and managing the data lifecycle.