Legion

Technology

ChiefArchitect

€480–720k ~AI est. Bucharest, Romania Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Chief Architect at Legion. Skills: Architecture, AI, Distributed systems, Platform strategy. Serve as senior-most technical authority. Dive into code”

What You'll Achieve.

Shape technical foundation for product innovation; Turn bold product ambitions into scalable, reliable production systems

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Diagnose root causes; Performance bottlenecks; Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Hands-on technical leader, Deep technical credibility, Operate fluidly between code-level decisions and long-term platform strategy, Pragmatic, decisive, opinionated, Comfortable making hard tradeoffs

Nice to Have

Built and scaled mission-critical software, Used by large enterprise customers

What You'll Do.

Serve as senior-most technical authority

Guide technical direction

Lead technical decisions

Write reference implementations

Write architecture decision records

Write technical specifications

Establish clear direction

Make technical decisions

Challenge architectural drift

Challenge unnecessary complexity

Challenge weak abstractions

Challenge short-term decisions

Partner with engineering leaders

Define long-term architecture

Establish engineering-wide standards

Serve as final architectural authority

Identify opportunities to reduce complexity

Improve system efficiency

Accelerate engineering velocity

Unlock new product capabilities

Surface technical debt

Surface architectural risk

Surface platform constraints

Create pragmatic migration paths

Maintain customer trust

Maintain backward compatibility

Maintain delivery speed

Ensure architecture supports enterprise configurability

Ensure architecture supports extensibility

Architect AI-native product capabilities

Define architecture for production AI systems

Make build versus buy decisions

Partner closely with Product

Turn complex problems into production systems

Establish standards for AI system quality

Ensure AI capabilities remain differentiated

Ensure AI capabilities remain defensible

Ensure AI capabilities remain enterprise-ready

Ensure AI capabilities remain integrated

Drive architecture for large-scale systems

Lead technical decisions

Improve architecture for observability

Use production data as input

Use incidents as input

Use escalations as input

Use customer patterns as input

Ensure architectural decisions support global scale

Ensure architectural decisions support data residency

Ensure architectural decisions support enterprise integrations

Ensure architectural decisions support configurability

Ensure architectural decisions support extensibility

Ensure architectural decisions support platform leverage

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner directly with Staff, Principal, and senior engineering leaders; Partner closely with Product, Data Science, and Engineering

Communication Scope

Technical designs; Technical specifications; Design reviews; Code-level discussions

Full Job Description

Chief Architect Hybrid, Bucharest, Romania 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. They are pragmatic, decisive, opinionated, and comfortable making hard tradeoffs when simplicity, scalability, reliability, or customer trust require it. 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. 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 to diagnose root causes and guide technical direction. Lead the hardest technical decisions across AI systems, optimization engines, distributed systems, data architectur

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