Senior / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will work directly with enterprise customers to understand their needs and build software that connects Legora to their systems and workflows. You will own complex engineering projects from technical scoping through production delivery, including custom integrations and core product contributions.

What you will do

• Work with enterprise customers to translate needs into technical requirements
• Own engineering delivery from discovery and design through deployment and troubleshooting
• Resolve ambiguity across customer stakeholders and internal teams
• Build integrations between Legora and customer systems
• Identify opportunities to turn customer-specific work into reusable capabilities
• Manage multiple engagements with a high degree of independence
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues where Legora meets a customer's environment
• Bring customer insights back into product and engineering decisions

Required qualifications

• 5-7+ years of software engineering experience
• Recent, hands-on ownership of production software and responsibility for technical decisions and delivery
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Ability to independently design, build, test, and ship reliable software
• Ability to lead technical conversations with customers
• Experience taking ambiguous problems across multiple teams into working solutions
• Strong product judgment
• Ability to prioritise and deliver without detailed direction
• Adaptable across technologies and environments

Nice to have

• Experience building B2B enterprise software in a fast-moving environment
• Previous forward deployed or embedded engineering experience involving hands-on production development
• Experience working across engineering and product, particularly where you helped define what to build
• Familiarity with enterprise integrations, APIs, authentication, and data flows across systems you don't control
• TypeScript experience

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision
• Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
• HSA or Healthcare FSA
• Dental plans via MetLife
• Vision plans via Vision Care
• Generous parental leave
• Free access to Maven Clinic
• Dependent Care FSA
• Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Life Insurance + STD/LTD
• 401(K) with generous company match

About the company

Legora is an AI-native workspace for legal professionals. The company has 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries and has scaled to $200M+ in ARR.