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The Role
Legend is hiring a Staff Software Engineer.
This is an opportunity to shape the technical foundation of a high-growth product in the social gaming space — a market scaling rapidly worldwide. You’ll help design and implement the backend and platform architecture that powers real-time tournaments, delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing systems players rely on.
You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver high-quality solutions while applying modern practices like Domain-Driven Design, SOLID, and GRASP. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy tackling tough scaling challenges, and want to shape the future of competitive gaming, this is your chance to make your mark.
In this role, we value diverse perspectives and encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification listed.
Your Impact
- Design and implement application architecture that is scalable, maintainable, observable, and high-performing.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
- Conduct code reviews, review architecture, and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Identify and optimise performance bottlenecks across systems.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features.
- Ensure application security, implementing safeguards against vulnerabilities.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience delivering large-scale systems in production.
- Strong grounding in Domain-Driven Design, API-first architecture, and software design patterns.
- Proficiency in JavaScript (React/Next) or another backend language, ideally Node.js or PHP.
- Experience with Pub/Sub, websockets, and Server-Sent Events (SSE).
- Preferably, experience with MySQL and creating white-label products.
- A strong product engineering mindset — able to translate requirements into technical designs and ship features end-to-end.
The Interview Process
- Initial Chat with Talent Partner (45 mins via Zoom)
- Interview with our Technical team (1 hour video via Zoom)
- Technical Interview with coding exercise with our Technical team (1.5 hour video via Zoom or 2x 1hr interview via Zoom depending on your preference)
- Interview with our Non-Technical team (1 hour video via Zoom)
- Final Interview with our Technical Leadership Team (1 hour video via Zoom).
Why Legend
- Starting salary from 3000 EUR per month.
- Super smart colleagues to work alongside and learn from, with company-wide team-building events twice a year, including great entertainment, catering, and accommodation in a beautiful hotel.
- Engaging development opportunities at all levels.
- Tailored flexibility for your work-life balance.
- Exciting global Legend events, where we unite in person to ignite our shared passion and unveil the exciting strategies for the year ahead!
- Unlock your full potential by joining the Legend team. To support you on this journey, we provide an extensive array of benefits and perks, as outlined in our global offerings above. For country specific benefits please reach out to your talent partner.
