# Chief Architect at Legion

- Company: Legion
- What the company does: Legion’s industry-leading workforce management platform maximizes labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. Backed by Norwest and a16z speedrun.
- Company website: https://legion.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $300K to $385K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/legion/jobs/7763058003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/legion-chief-architect/

## 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

Tags: Engineering