Chief Architect

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Responsibilities

• ▹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 to diagnose root causes and guide technical direction
• ▹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, technical specifications, and design patterns where needed to unblock teams
• ▹Make high-consequence technical decisions with incomplete information, balancing correctness, simplicity, speed, scalability, reliability, cost, and long-term maintainability
• ▹Challenge architectural drift, unnecessary complexity, weak abstractions, and short-term decisions that create long-term platform risk
• ▹Partner directly with Staff, Principal, and senior engineering leaders in design reviews, code-level discussions, and implementation planning
• ▹Define and own the long-term architecture for Legion's AI-driven Workforce Management platform across application services, data infrastructure, ML systems, optimization engines, APIs, integration architecture, developer platforms, and enterprise-scale operations
• ▹Establish engineering-wide standards for system design, scalability, performance, reliability, extensibility, observability, security, and maintainability
• ▹Serve as the final architectural authority for major platform initiatives and technical decisions with long-term consequences
• ▹Identify opportunities to reduce complexity, improve system efficiency, accelerate engineering velocity, and unlock new product capabilities
• ▹Proactively surface technical debt and architectural risk

Requirements

• ▹Proven track record building and scaling mission-critical software used by large enterprise customers
• ▹Deep technical credibility with senior engineers
• ▹Ability to operate fluidly between code-level decisions and long-term platform strategy

Soft skills

About the company

Legion Technologies is building the AI-powered operating system for the hourly workforce.