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Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Newcode.ai. Build and lead the forward-deployed engineering team .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering teams, managing software development processes, and deploying technology solutions within law firms. Proficient in building production software, integrating legal practice workflows, and ensuring compliance with ethical standards.
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Team LeadershipSoftware Engineering ManagementLaw-Firm Technology DeploymentProduction Code Development in Python or TypeScriptIntegration Design and API Management
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Hard Skills
Production Software DevelopmentAPI ManagementIntegration DesignData AccessCloud DeploymentTesting and Incident HandlingLLM-Based Workflow ImplementationDebugging in Client EnvironmentsBuilding Repeatable Delivery PracticesDocument Management Systems
Soft Skills
Coaching and MentoringCommunication with ExecutivesBuilding Trust with StakeholdersProblem-SolvingAdaptability in Evolving Environments
Tools & Technologies
Microsoft AzureMicrosoft 365IManageEliteAderant
Industry Keywords
Law-Firm SystemsDocument ManagementMatter PermissionsEthical WallsKnowledge ManagementBilling IntegrationsLitigation SupportDue DiligenceQuality CriteriaClient Confidentiality
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAzureCloudPythonTypeScript
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Build and lead the forward-deployed engineering team
- Recruit engineers, coach development, set expectations, and establish technical standards
- Lead technical discovery with law-firm technology teams
- Map data flows, integrations, access controls, dependencies, and deployment constraints
- Guide implementation of Aurora workflows, connectors, and client-specific extensions
- Review designs, code, and unblock delivery
- Run the AI Academy for each firm’s Aurora users
- Configure Aurora flows for firm use cases and join tailored demos when needed
- Map legal practice-group workflows into trusted flow designs
- Design firm-specific evaluations based on lawyers’ quality criteria
- Build trust with CIOs, innovation leaders, and firm engineers
- Establish repeatable processes from discovery through evaluation, release, monitoring, support, and handoff
- Protect client confidentiality and access boundaries; ensure testing, traceability, observability, and human review
- Set delivery estimates and commitments; surface scope changes, risks, and dependencies
- Partner with core engineering on reusable capabilities and platform changes
- Represent field needs in roadmap decisions
- Partner with Oslo Product and Engineering teams across time zones
- Track delivery speed, reliability, workflow adoption, engineering effort, and reuse
- Serve as the FDE for strategic and complex US firms
- Report to the CEO and build the team toward five direct reports within six months
Requirements
What you’ll need- Demonstrated experience hiring, managing, and developing software engineers who deliver and support production systems
- Direct experience deploying technology within law firms, either as an internal technology leader or a vendor delivery leader with substantial firm exposure
- Practical fluency in law-firm systems and operating constraints, including document management, matter permissions and ethical walls, identity, knowledge systems, and billing or practice-management integrations
- Understanding of law-firm work, including document review, due diligence, litigation support, and knowledge management, and how lawyers judge quality
- 5+ years building production software
- Computer science or engineering degree or equivalent experience
- Strong software engineering judgment across APIs, integration design, data access, cloud deployment, testing, incident handling, and maintainability
- Ability to write production code in Python or TypeScript
- Comfortable debugging in a client environment
- Hands-on experience taking LLM-based or agentic workflows into production, including retrieval, agents and tool use, structured outputs, guardrails, evaluation design, permission-aware data access, failure handling, and monitoring
- Experience turning ambiguous client needs into scoped, measurable delivery plans and explaining technical tradeoffs to executives and implementation teams
- Record of building repeatable delivery practices and reusable components
- Comfort building a function in an evolving company
- Additional valued experience with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, iManage or comparable document management systems, ethical-wall and matter-security tooling, Elite, Aderant, or similar finance platforms, and customer-facing engineering functions
- Law degree is not required; direct law-firm technology deployment experience is required
- Visa sponsorship unavailable; candidates must be authorized to work in the applicable country without employer sponsorship
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive base salary with equity and bonus
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Parental leave