Senior / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

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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 produ

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ularly 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.