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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.\nOur 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.\n2,100+ 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.\nWe partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.\nJoining Legora means three things.\nWe lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.\n\nWe fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.\n\nWegrow together: as a team and with our customers.\n\nMission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.\nIf you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.\n**Please note, this role is 5 days/week on-site in NYC**\nThe Role\nAs 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.\nYou'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.\nThis 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.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nWork directly with enterprise customers to understand their systems, workflows, and constraints, translating their needs into clear technical requirements.\n\nOwn engineering delivery from discovery and solution design through implementation, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting.\n\nResolve ambiguity across customer stakeholders and internal teams. Challenge assumptions, explain tradeoffs, and align people on a realistic scope and timeline.\n\nBuild integrations between Legora and customer systems, alongside changes to our core product. Identify opportunities to turn customer-specific work into reusable capabilities.\n\nManage multiple engagements with a high degree of independence, sequencing work, identifying dependencies, and communicating risks early.\n\nDiagnose and resolve complex issues where Legora meets a customer's environment, applying sound engineering judgment under time pressure.\n\nBring customer insights back into product and engineering decisions, and help develop reusable tooling and engineering practices as the function grows.\n\nWho You Are\n5-7+ years of software engineering experience, with recent, hands-on ownership of production software and clear responsibility for technical decisions and delivery.\n\nStrong software engineering fundamentals. You can independently design, build, test, and ship reliable software, and work effectively in an existing product codebase.\n\nComfortable leading technical conversations with customers. You can explain decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and nontechnical stakeholders.\n\nExperienced in taking ambiguous problems across multiple teams and turning them into working solutions. You can point to what you decided, built, and delivered.\n\nStrong product judgment. You understand the problem behind a request and can balance immediate customer needs with maintainability and broader product value.\n\nAble to prioritise and deliver without detailed direction. You set realistic expectations, surface problems early, and take responsibility for outcomes.\n\nAdaptable across technologies and environments. You can learn unfamiliar systems quickly and make progress when requirements evolve.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience building B2B enterprise software in a fast-moving environment.\n\nPrevious forward deployed or embedded engineering experience involving hands-on production development.\n\nExperience working across engineering and product, particularly where you helped define what to build.\n\nFamiliarity with enterprise integrations, APIs, authentication, and data flows across systems you don't control.\n\nTypeScript experience. We use it extensively, but welcome strong engineers from other stacks.\n\nWhat’s In It For You\nGlobal collaboration: Partner with teams and clients across Europe, APAC, and North America.\n\nCompetitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success.\n\nMeaningful work: Your efforts shape how thousands of lawyers use AI daily.\n\nIn-person environment: Union Square office designed for ambitious builders and company provided lunch daily.\n\nBenefits & Perks: We invest in our people with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package: Medical, Dental & Vision\nMultiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente\n\nHSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection)\n\nDental plans via MetLife\n\nVision plans via Vision Care\n\nFamily Support\nGenerous parental leave\n\nFree access to Maven Clinic\n\nDependent Care FSA\n\nFree One Medical membership for employees and dependents\n\nAdditional Perks\nPre-tax commuter benefits\n\nLife Insurance + STD/LTD\n\n401(K) with generous company match\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\nRobust voluntary benefits, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more\n\nLegora is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nAt 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. 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