Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Harvey sits in a growing corner of SaaS where enterprise software meets domain specific workflows, in this case legal and professional services. The role is notable because it spans both platform fundamentals such as permissions, notifications, and feature flags and the collaboration experiences that enterprise customers rely on, a combination that tends to define durable SaaS products as they mature.
For a SaaS engineering leader, this kind of scope builds career leverage in two directions. It develops judgment around multi tenant platform design and operational reliability while staying close to product iteration and real user outcomes. The emphasis on security and large scale AI powered systems also reflects where modern SaaS is heading, as more companies embed model driven capabilities into core workflows rather than treating AI as an add on.
This role is best suited to an engineering manager who prefers owning end to end outcomes, from architecture choices to delivery cadence, and who is comfortable moving between hands on technical depth and people leadership. It will fit someone who enjoys partnering tightly with product and design, and who values building shared infrastructure that unlocks multiple product lines.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Why Harvey
At Harvey, we’re 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, we’re 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, we’re 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 we’re just getting started.
Role Overview
As a Engineering Manager, Product at Harvey, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the foundation of our product platform while directly building user-facing features for some of the world’s 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 Harvey’s 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 You'll 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 — you’re 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 accommodations@harvey.ai
