Legal Engineer - Banking & Finance

Overview

About Legora Legora is on a mission to redefine how legal work gets done. We are building it with lawyers to ensure it is done right, side-by-side every step of the way. Our AI-native workspace helps legal professionals work faster and ask better questions, unlocking new insights. We ship fast, iterate effectively, and scale rapidly by design. When you join Legora, you become part of a team that believes "+good enough" isn’t good enough and that the way to win is together—empowering lawyers to do their best work with technology that truly understands them.

We’re shaping the future of legal tech and defining it. Ready to join us in building the intelligent future of law?

You’ll operate at the intersection of law, product, AI, and client strategy, helping our clients transform how they work. Your knowledge of Banking & Finance legal work will drive forward Legora’s legal engineering function and relationships with key clients.

• Become a thought partner to elite legal teams: understanding their deal patterns, workflows, stress points, and the tiny inefficiencies that become huge over time.
• Spot and shape high-value Banking & Finance use cases across the full lifecycle: drafting, negotiations, term sheet comparisons, CP tracking, diligence, portfolio support, and everything in between.
• Own client adoption alongside Customer Success: from designing tight pilots to onboarding users to driving full practice-wide implementation across global banks and top-tier firms.
• Run best-in-class demos and training that resonate deeply with Banking & Finance lawyers: speed, accuracy, risk reduction, and the ability to deliver under pressure.
• Bring client insight straight into product — influencing how Legora evolves to support lending workflows, market-standard templates, and structured financial documentation.
• Build the playbooks and frameworks that will define how Banking & Finance teams adopt generative AI around the world.
• Guide clients through the AI shift — separating hype from impact, quantifying the ROI, and mapping how AI reshapes roles, workflows, and expectations.

• 3+ years PQE from a top-tier Banking & Finance legal practice, with exposure to senior-level work (e.g., leveraged finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, corporate lending, structured or asset-backed finance).
• A practical understanding of how deals unfold, where complexity lives, and where the real inefficiencies hide.
• A genuine curiosity for technology and a desire to explore what generative AI makes possible.
• The ability to communicate with precision—whether you’re talking to a partner, an innovation lead, or an engineer.
• Comfort with ambiguity, complexity, and fast-moving environments.
• A bias for action: you care about quality, but you don’t chase perfection at the expense of progress.

• Are tech-curious and product-savvy. Not necessarily a coder, but passionate about navigating technical conversations, especially around generative AI, technology implementation, innovation and productivity.
• Communicate clearly and confidently with diverse stakeholders, both lawyers and engineers. Translating across disciplines is second nature to you.
• Bring structure to ambiguity and energy to complexity; you enjoy being the calm, credible presence in a fast-moving environment.
• Understand how to evaluate and improve existing processes as a direct result of new and emerging technologies.
• Are proactive, self-directed, and comfortable juggling multiple client relationships at once.

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.