Engineering Manager, Frontend Platform
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 250 - 300
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
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 700 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
Were looking for a leader who will build our Frontend Platform team from the ground up playing both the hands-on tech architect and people-leader. Youll define the vision for shared front-end infrastructure (components tooling performance developer experience) and lead a centralized team of front-end engineers thats building out those foundational component whilst supporting product teams.
What Youll Do
Define and own the roadmap for the front-end platform: component library design system shared utilities tooling and build/deploy pipelines.
Build hire and lead a small but growing team of front-end engineers: mentor set culture performance-manage and enable team growth.
Serve as a hands-on technical lead: architect design implement key platform features and review/shape team outputs.
Partner with product engineering design/UX backend and infrastructure teams to ensure the platform delivers high-quality consistent performant front-end experiences.
Establish metrics best practices and frameworks for front-end development across the org: developer productivity component reuse performance maintainability and reliability.
What You Have
Strong front-end engineering experience including building or leading shared front-end systems libraries or platform infrastructure.
Experience as a technical lead or manager with hands-on delivery team leadership.
Strong technical skills with modern front-end stacks (e.g. React TypeScript component architecture state management performance optimisations).
Demonstrated experience building or evolving a design system / component library used across multiple teams.
Excellent collaboration communication and influencing skills you can build consensus partner across functions and drive engineering strategy.
Nice-to-Have
Experience with front-end performance instrumentation feature-flagging at scale micro-front-ends or multi-tenant front-end architectures.
Managed or built a shared engineering pool or center of excellence model for front-end engineers.
Experience in a fast-growing SaaS environment where you scaled teams infrastructure or processes.
Familiarity with enterprise/regulated environments security or compliance in front-end contexts.
Open-source contributions or public talks/blogs in the front-end architecture or platform space.
Compensation Range
$250000 - $300000 USD
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.
