Engineering Manager - Forward Deployed Engineering

About the role

Legora, an AI-native legal workspace used by 2,100+ customers in 80+ countries, is hiring an Engineering Manager for its Forward Deployed Engineering team. The manager leads engineers who work directly with large enterprise customers and leading law firms, building software that connects Legora to their systems and workflows. The role is based in the Union Square office in New York City, five days a week.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a team of Forward Deployed Engineers in New York, review code, mentor engineers at every level, contribute to hiring and keep the team healthy and effective.
• Set team objectives aligned with the FDE function and plan how engagements are scoped, staffed, delivered and handed over.
• Stay hands-on by leading technical discovery and delivery on strategic accounts, building end-to-end features and integrations across the fullstack platform.
• Make architecture and technical decisions, holding a high bar for quality, security and performance.
• Act as a trusted technical partner to customer stakeholders, aligning them on scope, trade-offs and timelines.
• Work with Product, Design and Product Engineering to turn field learnings into reusable integrations, tooling or core capabilities.
• Track delivery health such as time to value, deployment quality and reuse, share it with FDE leadership and champion good practices in development, DevOps and continuous improvement.

Required profile

• Strong experience as a fullstack or backend engineer building and owning complex, scalable systems end to end, with confidence across backend, frontend and infrastructure.
• Experience leading and managing engineers, ideally in a customer-facing function such as forward deployed engineering.
• Strong ability to stay hands-on while setting technical direction for a team.
• Strong communication with empathy and clarity, able to earn the trust of senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong product judgment, including knowing when to build bespoke solutions, push back or let a customer need shape the core product.
• Ability to take ownership, solve pressing problems independently and make progress where answers are unclear.

Required skills

• Familiarity with enterprise integrations, APIs, authentication and data flows across systems you do not control.
• Nice to have: forward deployed experience at a high-growth B2B or AI company, work in legal, financial services or other regulated environments, experience shipping LLM-powered products, or TypeScript.

What we offer

• Medical, dental and vision coverage, with multiple medical plan options and HSA/FSA options.
• Family support, generous parental leave and free access to a clinic.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, 401(k) with company match and unlimited PTO.
• Voluntary benefits including identity protection, legal coverage and pet savings programs.