Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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 so teams can focus on judgment, strategy, and outcomes. Over 1,000 customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview. We partner with world‑class performers such as Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.

About 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, using 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, collaborating closely with product engineers, Legal Engineers, and Engagement Managers.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their systems, workflows, and constraints, translating 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 trade‑offs, and align on 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 independently, 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, helping develop reusable tooling and engineering practices.

Requirements

• 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; ability to independently design, build, test, and ship reliable software within an existing product codebase.
• Comfortable leading technical conversations with customers and explaining decisions and trade‑offs to both engineers and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience turning ambiguous problems across multiple teams into working solutions, with concrete examples of what you decided, built, and delivered.
• Strong product judgment—understanding the problem behind a request and balancing immediate customer needs with maintainability and broader product value.
• Ability to prioritize and deliver without detailed direction, set realistic expectations, surface problems early, and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Adaptable across technologies and environments; quick learner of unfamiliar systems and able to 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 helping define what to build.
• Familiarity with enterprise integrations, APIs, authentication, and data flows across systems you don’t control.
• TypeScript experience (the primary language at Legora), though strong engineers from other stacks are welcome.

Benefits & Perks

• Global collaboration with teams and clients across Europe, APAC, and North America.
• Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success.
• Meaningful work shaping how thousands of lawyers use AI daily.
• In‑person environment in a Union Square office designed for ambitious builders, with company‑provided lunch daily.
• Medical, Dental & Vision plans (multiple options through Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, MetLife, Vision Care).
• HSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection).
• Generous parental leave and free access to Maven Clinic.
• Dependent Care FSA, One Medical membership for employees and dependents.
• Pre‑tax commuter benefits.
• Life Insurance + STD/LTD, 401(k) with generous company match.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Robust voluntary benefits: identity protection (Aura), legal coverage (MetLife), pet savings programs, and more.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $237,150 – $320,850

Schedule

This role is 5 days per week on‑site in New York City.