5-7 years of experience as a fullstack or backend engineer with a focus on scalable systems.
Proven leadership experience managing engineers in customer-facing roles.
Hands-on technical expertise while guiding team direction.
Strong communication skills to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Solid product judgment to balance customer needs with core product development.
Ability to independently tackle complex problems and navigate ambiguity.
Familiarity with enterprise integrations and APIs; experience in regulated environments is a plus.
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers, ensuring effective performance and growth.
Set and align team objectives with the broader goals of the Forward Deployed Engineering function.
Engage in hands-on technical discovery and delivery for strategic accounts, building features across the tech stack.
Make architectural decisions, maintaining high standards for quality and performance.
Act as a trusted partner to customer stakeholders, managing scope and timelines effectively.
Collaborate with Product and Design teams to translate field insights into reusable tools and capabilities.
Monitor and report on team delivery metrics, advocating for best practices in development and DevOps.
Benefits
Global collaboration with teams and clients worldwide.
Comprehensive salary and benefits package.
Opportunity to impact how thousands of lawyers utilize AI.
In-person work environment in a dynamic Union Square office.
Medical, Dental & Vision coverage with multiple plan options.
Generous parental leave and family support services.
401(K) with a generous company match and unlimited PTO.
Full Job Description
The role
As Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering, you'll lead a team of engineers who put Legora to work inside our largest enterprise customers. Our Forward Deployed Engineers sit between customers, product and engineering. They work directly with the world's leading law firms and legal teams to understand how they operate, then build the software that connects Legora to their systems and workflows.
You'll lead by example: hands-on in the code while guiding a talented team, helping them deliver complex customer engagements and grow into owners who can run those engagements independently. You'll work closely with Product Engineering, Product, Design, Legal Engineers, Engagement Managers and our commercial teams. What your team builds shapes how thousands of lawyers use AI every day, and what it learns in the field helps decide what becomes part of the core product.
This is a New York City-based role, five days a week in our Union Square office. We believe building together in person drives better outcomes.
What you'll do
Lead, coach and grow a team of Forward Deployed Engineers in New York, review code, mentor engineers at every level, contribute to hiring, and keep the team healthy and effective.
Set team objectives that connect to the goals of the FDE function, and plan how engagements are scoped, staffed, delivered and handed over.
Stay hands-on by leading technical discovery and delivery on strategic accounts, building end-to-end features and integrations across our fullstack platform with Node.js, React, Azure, AWS and Kubernetes.
Make architecture and technical decisions for your team's work, holding a high bar for quality, security and performance.
Act as a trusted technical partner to customer stakeholders, aligning them on scope, tradeoffs and timelines.
Work with Product, Design and Product Engineering to turn what the team learns in the field into reusable integrations, tooling or core capabilities.
Track your team's delivery health, such as time to value, deployment quality and reuse, share it with FDE leadership, and champion good practices in development, DevOps and continuous improvement.
What we're looking for
Strong experience as a fullstack or backend engineer building and owning complex, scalable systems end to end, with confidence across backend, frontend and infrastructure.
Experience leading and managing engineers, ideally in a customer-facing function such as forward deployed engineering.
Strong ability to stay hands-on while setting technical direction for a team.
Strong ability to communicate with empathy and clarity, and to earn the trust of senior technical and non-technical stakeholders, including reframing a request or resetting expectations when it's the right call.
Strong product judgment, including knowing when to build something bespoke, when to push back, and when a customer need should shape the core product.
Ability to take ownership, solve the most pressing problems independently, and make progress where the answers aren't clear and processes are few.
Familiarity with enterprise integrations, APIs, authentication and data flows across systems you don't control. Nice to have: forward deployed experience at a high-growth B2B or AI company, work in legal, financial services or other regulated environments, experience shipping LLM-powered products, or TypeScript (we use it extensively, but welcome strong engineers from other stacks). What's In It For You
Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients domestically and internationally.
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.
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
