Forward Deployed Engineer

Legora

$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of relevant experience in engineering and integrations
  • Strong backend coding skills with proficiency in APIs and data pipelines
  • Experience in customer-facing roles focused on technical delivery outcomes
  • Familiarity with enterprise integration technologies (SSO, REST, document management systems)
  • Excellent communication skills for engaging both technical and strategic stakeholders
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguous problems and early-stage deployments

Responsibilities

  • Write production-level code tailored to complex enterprise client environments
  • Lead the technical scoping process from requirement gathering to delivery
  • Develop reusable tools and connectors to streamline future deployments
  • Troubleshoot and resolve integration issues under tight deadlines
  • Act as the technical advocate for customers, identifying integration challenges
  • Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success to enhance account engagement
  • Work closely with Engineering and Product teams to optimize integration processes

Benefits

  • Global collaboration with diverse teams across multiple continents
  • Competitive compensation package, including salary and benefits
  • Opportunities to significantly impact how legal professionals leverage AI
  • Access to a collaborative in-person work environment with daily lunches
  • Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous parental leave and family support services
  • Unlimited PTO and a strong 401(K) match program
Full Job Description
The role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Legora, you'll sit at the intersection of product engineering and customer success - embedded directly with our most complex enterprise clients to make our AI-native platform work seamlessly in their environments. You'll write real code, solve real integration challenges, and leave behind infrastructure that outlasts your visit.

What you'll be doing
  • Embed with enterprise customers during and after deployment, writing production-grade code to bridge Legora's platform with their existing legal tech stack
  • Own the full technical scoping process: gather requirements, design integration architecture, and deliver working solutions end-to-end
  • Build and maintain reusable connectors, automation scripts, and tooling that accelerate future customer deployments
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues at the intersection of customer environments and Legora's platform - often under time pressure
  • Act as the technical voice of the customer internally - surface friction points, edge cases, and integration gaps directly to our product and engineering teams
  • Partner with Sales and Customer Success to scope new deals and expand existing accounts where technical complexity is a deciding factor
  • Work closely with Engineering and Product to deliver successful integrations and improve general product offering

Who you are
  • A strong generalist engineer comfortable writing backend code and working across APIs, auth protocols, and data pipelines
  • Experienced in customer-facing technical roles - pre-sales engineering, solutions engineering, or embedded delivery - where you've had to own outcomes, not just hand off specs
  • Familiar with enterprise integration patterns: SSO (SAML, OIDC), REST and webhook-based APIs, and document management systems like iManage, SharePoint, or NetDocuments
  • Able to move fast without cutting corners - you know when to build something robust and when to ship something good enough to unblock a customer
  • A clear communicator who can hold a technical conversation with an IT administrator and a strategic one with a managing partner - sometimes in the same meeting
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and energised by early-stage problems that don't have a playbook yet
  • 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

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