Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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.

1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR , with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview. 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 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.

Who You Are 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 mult