Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Legora•New York, NY

8d•$237,150 - $320,850•Onsite

About The Position

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. We have scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC. Joining Legora means we lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions; we fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback; and 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.

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. 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 Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

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
Generous parental leave
Free access to Maven Clinic
Dependent Care FSA
Free 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, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more