Senior / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Legora, an AI-native legal workspace used by 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries, is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer. You will work directly with its largest enterprise customers to understand their needs and build the software that connects Legora to their systems and workflows. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role within Enterprise Engineering, working closely with product engineers, Legal Engineers and Engagement Managers. The position is 5 days per week on site in the Union Square office in NYC.

Key responsibilities

• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their systems, workflows and constraints, and translate 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, explaining tradeoffs and aligning on scope and timeline.
• Build integrations between Legora and customer systems, alongside changes to the core product, and identify reusable capabilities.
• Manage multiple engagements independently, sequencing work, spotting dependencies and communicating risks early.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues where Legora meets a customer's environment under time pressure.
• Feed customer insights back into product and engineering decisions and help develop reusable tooling and engineering practices.

Required profile

• 5-7+ years of software engineering experience, with recent hands-on ownership of production software and responsibility for technical decisions.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: able to design, build, test and ship reliable software in an existing codebase.
• Comfortable leading technical conversations with customers and explaining tradeoffs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to turn ambiguous problems across teams into working solutions and to deliver without detailed direction.
• Nice to have: B2B enterprise software experience, previous forward deployed or embedded engineering, and experience across engineering and product.

Required skills

• Experience with enterprise integrations, APIs, authentication and data flows across systems you do not control (nice to have).
• TypeScript experience is preferred; the company uses it extensively but welcomes strong engineers from other stacks.

What we offer

• Medical, dental and vision plans, HSA or FSA, and family support including parental leave and dependent care FSA.
• One Medical membership for employees and dependents, and free access to Maven Clinic.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, 401(k) with company match and unlimited PTO.
• Voluntary benefits such as identity protection and legal coverage, plus company-provided lunch daily.