Senior Engineering Manager, Backend Platform

Highlights

• Lead Backend Platform team building shared frameworks used by every product team.
• Define architecture and safeguards so engineers and agents ship with confidence.
• Scale data layer and streaming systems for complex AI-driven legal workflows.

What they offer

• equity
• bonus

Ideal candidate

Platform-minded engineering leader who turns messy backend problems into simple tools others love. You coach with high standards, think in leverage, and care deeply about reliability and developer experience.

Requirements

• Experience leading strong teams delivering complex backend or platform systems
• Deep judgment in backend architecture and distributed systems including database access, concurrency, caching, API design and performance
• Experience building shared libraries, frameworks or internal platforms adopted by multiple teams
• Technical depth to engage in design and code reviews and guide migrations across large codebase
• Track record hiring, coaching and developing engineers with culture of ownership
• Strong instincts for developer tools and turning engineer feedback into simpler workflows
• Experience embedding reliability, observability and security into shared systems
• Clear communication and ability to lead across teams from design through rollout
• Serious hands-on use of AI coding agents with opinions on agent-safe codebases
• Experience with Python and frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI is valuable