Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

Why Harvey

At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate not incrementally but end-to-end. 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. With 1000 customers in 58 countries 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 is sharp motivated and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast operate with intensity and take real ownership of the problems we tackle from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers from leadership to engineers and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity push for excellence and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar we invite you to build with us.

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

Role Overview

As a Engineering Manager Product at Harvey youll play a pivotal role in shaping the foundation of our product platform while directly building user-facing features for some of the worlds leading law firms and enterprise customers. This team owns and operates the platform layer that enables secure reliable and flexible experiences for our customers including notifications permissions and feature flag infrastructure. We also build enterprise-grade collaboration product experiences for law firms.

You will design and own systems that not only serve as critical infrastructure for the rest of the company but also directly impact how our users engage with Harveys AI-powered legal tools. This role is ideal for engineers who are excited by the opportunity to move between deep platform thinking and hands-on product iteration.

This role is based in Toronto Canada. We use a hybrid 3 days-per week in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

What Youll Do

Own end-to-end delivery of core product initiatives from technical design through execution and iteration while directly managing a high-performing fullstack engineering team.

Set technical direction for large-scale AI-powered systems including :

Retrieval over petabyte-scale document collections.

Product interfaces that enable organizations to collaborate with AI.

Long-horizon (1000 step) planning agents for mission-critical workflows.

Government-grade security for highly sensitive data.

Evaluation of LLMs across a 10k leaf taxonomy of tasks.

Internet-scale data collection across 50 jurisdictions.

Translate product vision into architecture making pragmatic tradeoffs that balance speed quality and long-term scalability in a fast-moving environment.

Lead hands-on when it matters : contribute to design code and architecture reviews and dive into implementation to unblock the team or tackle the hardest problems.

Build and grow your team by hiring exceptional engineers setting clear technical and behavioral standards and investing in mentorship and career development.

Partner deeply with Product Design and AI to identify high-leverage opportunities and ship highly intuitive detail-oriented user experiences.

Establish a strong engineering culture centered on simplicity ownership craftsmanship and continuous improvement.

Align execution with company goals ensuring technical investments directly support product strategy and long-term impact.

What You Have

6 years of experience as a product-focused fullstack or backend software engineer (post BS / MS) with a history of shipping real products to real users.

2 years of experience leading engineers with clear ownership over both delivery and team health. Past management experience is a plus.

A proven ability to design and operate backend platforms that support multiple product lines at scale.

Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React) or backend systems (e.g. Python Node Go).

Excellent technical judgment : you know when to move fast when to invest and when to simplify.

A strong product instinct and attention to detail with a track record of building intuitive high-quality user experiences.

Demonstrated success building motivating and retaining high-performing teams in high-growth environments.

Solid computer science fundamentals and strong programming skills.

Grit and ownership mindset youre comfortable operating in ambiguity and taking responsibility for outcomes.

Bonus : experience with AI-powered applications large-scale data systems LLM evaluation or complex internal platforms.

What We Offer

Be part of building something special as a founding member of our Toronto team

Structured hybrid working arrangement : 3 days in our Toronto office 2 days working from home

We are an AI company and we use AI to improve all of our processes including in the recruitment process. Whilst we do use AI to help improve efficiency in our recruitment process we do not rely on AI to make any automated decisions and ensure that a human reviews AI output.

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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

Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Hospitality Experience,Go,Management Experience,React,Redux,Node.js,AWS,Mechanical Engineering,Team Management,Leadership Experience,Mentoring,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Engineering

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1