Chief Architect

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LegionWorkforce Management
Remote, USAFull-TimeSenior
Salary300,000 - 385,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
15+ years
Required Skills
PythonArtificial IntelligenceJavaMachine LearningGoSaaSDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • 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.
  • 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, and high-availability environments.
  • Experience making major architecture decisions for systems with high scale, high reliability, and complex domain logic.
  • Experience building or supporting AI, ML, optimization, or data-intensive products in production.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and modern backend languages (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Scala).
  • Strong understanding of observability, performance engineering, and operational excellence.
  • Strong architectural judgment and ability to influence stakeholders without relying on hierarchy.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as 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 technical decisions across AI systems, optimization, distributed systems, data architecture, and platform modernization.
  • Define and own the long-term architecture for Legion’s AI-driven Workforce Management platform.
  • Establish engineering-wide standards for system design, scalability, reliability, observability, and security.
  • Partner with Staff, Principal, and senior engineering leaders in design reviews and code-level discussions.
  • Architect AI-native product capabilities across forecasting, scheduling, and labor optimization.
  • Mentor and elevate Staff, Principal, and senior engineering leaders.
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