Engineering Manager - Forward Deployed Engineering (AI)

Location: New York City, United States; onsite five days a week at the Union Square office

Salary: $224.4K–$303.6K annually, plus equity

Company

Legora builds an AI-native workspace that helps legal professionals analyze documents and manage end-to-end workflows, serving 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, mentor, hire, and grow a team of Forward Deployed Engineers in New York.
• Set objectives and plan how customer engagements are scoped, staffed, delivered, and handed over.
• Stay hands-on by leading technical discovery and building end-to-end features and integrations with Node.js, React, Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Make architecture and technical decisions while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and performance.
• Partner with customer stakeholders to align scope, tradeoffs, and timelines.
• Work with Product, Design, Product Engineering, Legal Engineers, Engagement Managers, and commercial teams to turn field learnings into reusable integrations, tooling, and core product capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong experience as a fullstack or backend engineer building and owning complex, scalable systems end to end.
• Confidence across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
• Experience leading and managing engineers, ideally in a customer-facing function such as forward deployed engineering.
• Ability to remain hands-on while setting technical direction for a team.
• Clear, empathetic communication and the ability to earn the trust of senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong product judgment, including deciding when to build bespoke solutions, push back, or shape the core product around customer needs.
• Ability to take ownership, solve pressing problems independently, and make progress where answers are unclear and processes are limited.
• Familiarity with enterprise integrations, APIs, authentication, and data flows across systems outside your control.

Nice to have

• Forward deployed experience at a high-growth B2B or AI company.
• Experience in legal, financial services, or other regulated environments.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered products.
• Experience with TypeScript; strong engineers from other stacks are also welcome.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person environment focused on collaboration and ambitious technical work.
• Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, tools for success, and equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans, with HSA or Healthcare FSA options.
• Parental leave, Maven Clinic access, dependent care FSA, and One Medical membership.
• 401(k) with company match, commuter benefits, life insurance, disability coverage, unlimited PTO, and additional voluntary benefits.