Senior / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

FDE Times; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401(K) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Lunch provided daily

Diversity and inclusion programs

Job summary

Legora is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work with our largest enterprise customers, translating their needs into integration work and connected workflows.

You will own complex engineering projects from discovery to production delivery, shaping Legora’s core product while guiding technical delivery with customers. This hands-on role sits in Enterprise Engineering and requires strong judgment and independence.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of software engineering experience with production ownership.
• Strong fundamentals: design, build, test, and ship reliable software.
• Comfortable leading technical conversations with customers.
• Experience turning ambiguous problems into working solutions across teams.
• Strong product judgment balancing customer needs with product value.
• Ability to deliver without detailed direction and manage scope.
• Adaptable across technologies and environments.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand systems and translate needs into clear technical requirements.
• Own engineering delivery from discovery through deployment and troubleshooting.
• Build integrations between Legora and customer systems and contribute to core product.
• Explain tradeoffs and deliverables to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead technical decisions and manage multiple engagements with independence.
• Develop reusable tooling and influence engineering practices.

Skills

Software engineering

Customer-facing

Technical leadership

Ambiguity handling

Cross-team collaboration

Product judgment

Adaptability

Tools

TypeScript

Job description

Job Description

About Us

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them.

We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.

Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.

2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.

We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.

Joining Legora means three things.

• We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.
• We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.
• We grow together: as a team and with our customers.

Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.

If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.

Please note, this role is 5 days/week on-site in NYC.

The Role

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll work directly with our largest enterprise customers to understand their needs and build the software that connects Legora to their systems and workflows.

You'll own complex engineering projects from an ambiguous customer request through technical scoping, implementation, and production delivery. Your work will span custom integrations and contributions to Legora's core product. You'll use your technical and product judgment to determine what a customer needs, what we can deliver, and where a solution has value beyond a single engagement.

This is a hands‑on senior individual contributor role within Enterprise Engineering. You'll bring the engineering depth to contribute directly to our core product, alongside the communication and judgment to lead technical delivery with customers. You'll work closely with product engineers, Legal Engineers, and Engagement Managers, taking ownership of technical decisions and implementation.

What You'll Be Doing

• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their systems, workflows, and constraints, translating their needs into clear technical requirements.
• Own engineering delivery from discovery and solution design through implementation, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Resolve ambiguity across customer stakeholders and internal teams. Challenge assumptions, explain tradeoffs, and align people on a realistic scope and timeline.
• Build integrations between Legora and customer systems, alongside changes to our core product. Identify opportunities to turn customer‑specific work into reusable capabilities.
• Manage multiple engagements with a high degree of independence, sequencing work, identifying dependencies, and communicating risks early.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues where Legora meets a customer's environment, applying sound engineering judgment under time pressure.
• Bring customer insights back into product and engineering decisions, and help develop reusable tooling and engineering practices as the function grows.

Who You Are

• 5-7+ years of software engineering experience, with recent, hands‑on ownership of production software and clear responsibility for technical decisions and delivery.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You can independently design, build, test, and ship reliable software, and work effectively in an existing product codebase.
• Comfortable leading technical conversations with customers. You can explain decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experienced in taking ambiguous problems across multiple teams and turning them into working solutions. You can point to what you decided, built, and delivered.
• Strong product judgment. You understand the problem behind a request and can balance immediate customer needs with maintainability and broader product value.
• Able to prioritise and deliver without detailed direction. You set realistic expectations, surface problems early, and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Adaptable across technologies and environments. You can learn unfamiliar systems quickly and make progress when requirements evolve.

Nice to Have

• Experience building B2B enterprise software in a fast‑moving environment.
• Previous forward deployed or embedded engineering experience involving hands‑on production development.
• Experience working across engineering and product, particularly where you helped define what to build.
• Familiarity with enterprise integrations, APIs, authentication, and data flows across systems you don't control.
• TypeScript experience. We use it extensively, but welcome strong engineers from other stacks.

What’s In It For You

• Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients across Europe, APAC, and North America.
• Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success.
• Meaningful work: Your efforts shape how thousands of lawyers use AI daily.
• In‑person environment: Union Square office designed for ambitious builders and company provided lunch daily.
• Benefits & Perks: We invest in our people with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package: Medical, Dental & Vision
• Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
• HSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection)
• Dental plans via MetLife
• Vision plans via Vision Care

Family Support

• Generous parental leave
• Free access to Maven Clinic
• Dependent Care FSA
• Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents

Additional Perks

• Pre‑tax commuter benefits
• Life Insurance + STD/LTD
• 401(K) with generous company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Robust voluntary benefits, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.