Legion’s industry-leading workforce management platform maximizes labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. Backed by Norwest and a16z speedrun.
About the role
This person will own architecture and technical decision-making for the most complex parts of Legion’s Workforce Management platform, including AI, optimization, forecasting, scheduling, distributed systems, data platforms, real-time decisioning, enterprise scalability, security, compliance, and developer productivity. This role reports to the Head of Product, Engineering, and Support. This is an open role currently being filled on an interim basis by the CEO.
What they're looking for
- Up to 15% travel for leadership collaboration, engineering offsites, strategic customer engagements, and other business-critical meetings
- Demonstrated success designing and scaling mission-critical, multi-tenant SaaS platforms for enterprise customers
- Deep hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, data platforms, APIs, event-driven systems, platform engineering, and high-availability production environments
- Proven ability to operate as a hands-on technical leader who can credibly engage in code-level and design-level discussions with senior engineers
- Experience making major architecture decisions for systems with high scale, high reliability requirements, complex domain logic, and long product lifecycles
- Experience modernizing large production systems incrementally while maintaining uptime, backward compatibility, customer trust, and engineering velocity
More about this role
Legion Technologies is building the AI-powered operating system for the hourly workforce. We are hiring a Chief Architect to serve as Legion’s most senior hands-on technical leader and to shape the technical foundation that will power the next decade of product innovation.
This is not a strategy-only or advisory role. The Chief Architect must live close to the code, go deep with engineering teams, challenge assumptions, write and review technical designs, make high-consequence architecture decisions, and help turn bold product ambitions into scalable, reliable production systems.
This person will own architecture and technical decision-making for the most complex parts of Legion’s Workforce Management platform, including AI, optimization, forecasting, scheduling, distributed systems, data platforms, real-time decisioning, enterprise scalability, security, compliance, and developer productivity.
The ideal candidate has built and scaled mission-critical software used by large enterprise customers, has deep technical credibility with senior engineers, and can operate fluidly between code-level decisions and long-term platform strategy. They are pragmatic, decisive, opinionated, and...
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