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Chief Architect

Job summary

Remote
Engineering

Work model

Remote first
Only US
2 weeks ago
Job description

Job Overview

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.

Responsibilities and Duties

Hands-On Architecture and Technical Decision-Making

  • Serve as Legion's senior-most hands-on technical authority for complex architecture, system design, and platform evolution.
  • Personally dive into code, design documents, production incidents, performance bottlenecks, and implementation tradeoffs.
  • Lead the hardest technical decisions across AI systems, optimization engines, distributed systems, data architecture, reliability, scalability, security, and platform modernization.
  • Write prototypes, reference implementations, architecture decision records, and technical specifications.
  • Partner directly with Staff, Principal, and senior engineering leaders in design reviews and implementation planning.

Platform Architecture and Technical Vision

  • Define and own the long-term architecture for Legion's AI-driven Workforce Management platform.
  • Establish engineering-wide standards for system design, scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Proactively surface technical debt, architectural risk, and platform constraints.
  • Create pragmatic migration paths from current-state to target-state architecture.

AI, Optimization, and Decision Systems

  • Architect AI-native product capabilities across forecasting, scheduling, labor optimization, and intelligent agents.
  • Define the architecture for production AI systems, including data pipelines, feature platforms, and model serving.
  • Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to turn complex labor optimization problems into reliable, scalable production systems.

Distributed Systems, Data, and Enterprise Scale

  • Drive architecture for large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS systems.
  • Lead technical decisions involving microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, and real-time systems.
  • Improve the architecture for observability, incident analysis, and capacity planning.

Engineering Culture and Technical Talent

  • Mentor and elevate Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers, and senior engineering leaders.
  • Raise the bar for technical judgment, system design, and engineering craftsmanship.
  • Build a culture of disciplined technical thinking, direct debate, and pragmatic execution.

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience building and scaling large-scale software systems.
  • Prior experience as a Chief Architect, Distinguished Engineer, Principal Architect, or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
  • Demonstrated success designing and scaling mission-critical, multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
  • Deep hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and data platforms.
  • Experience building or supporting AI, ML, optimization, or data-intensive products in production.
  • Strong experience with modern backend languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Scala).
  • Ability to influence without relying on hierarchy.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Base Salary Range: $300,000 - $385,000 + Bonus + Stock Equity.
  • $0 monthly premium medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401k plan.
  • Discretionary Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays.
  • Parental Leave.
  • Monthly Wellness and Lunch reimbursements.

About Legion

Legion Technologies delivers the industry's most innovative workforce management platform. Our mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs by enabling intelligent automation to optimize labor efficiency and enhance the employee experience. We are a remote, mission-driven team.