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Director of Engineering, Platform

Legion is a remote, mission-driven company building an AI-native workforce management platform to improve hourly work. The Director of Engineering, Platform will lead and grow a globally distributed cloud platform team, own platform delivery and reliability, and remain hands-on writing and reviewing Java code roughly half the time.

Skills

  • Extensive Java development with Spring Boot and Hibernate in production systems.
  • Strong relational database and data modeling experience (MySQL preferred).
  • Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, AppDynamics, Prometheus.
  • Design and implementation of scalable cloud architectures using public cloud services.
  • Proven experience managing fully remote engineering teams in a startup environment.
  • Experience with incident management, reliability engineering practices, and SRE collaboration.
  • Product delivery experience including customer rollouts and timely market delivery.
  • Security, compliance, and data protection best practices for cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, build, mentor, and manage a globally distributed cloud platform engineering team.
  • Set strategic direction and technical vision for platform architecture, reliability, scalability, and security.
  • Own delivery of platform product commitments and define/measure engineering OKRs.
  • Write secure, efficient enterprise-quality Java code and participate in peer code reviews (hands-on ~50% time).
  • Drive cross-team process improvements and enable Product, Quality, and UX via strong partnership.
  • Implement and maintain security, compliance, and data protection measures for the platform.
  • Provide technical guidance, stay current on cloud technologies, and offer thought leadership.
  • Interface with customer success and implementation teams to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues.
  • Participate in incident management on-call rotation to help meet availability goals.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (required).
  • Master's degree in Engineering or related field (preferred).

Benefits

  • $0 monthly premium and flexible medical, dental, and vision plans effective day one
  • 401(k) plan
  • Discretionary paid time off and paid holidays
  • Parental leave
  • Equity (stock options or RSUs)
  • Discretionary bonus
  • Monthly wellness reimbursement
  • Monthly team lunch stipend
  • Fully remote, distributed team
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Legion Technologies is headquartered in Redwood City, CA and was established in 2016. Legion provides businesses a workforce engagement platform in support of labor efficiency and retention. Legion's platform forecasts business needs and initiativ...

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