Senior SaaS Platform Architect - Remote Opportunity

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior SaaS Platform Architect to join our team remotely. In this role, you will lead the architectural evolution of our SaaS platform, ensuring it meets the needs of our enterprise customers while providing a robust and scalable solution. As a Senior SaaS Platform Architect, you will directly impact the scheduling fairness and financial stability of millions of hourly workers worldwide.

What You'll Do

• Define and evolve the architecture of Legion's multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Lead system design for highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed services.
• Establish architectural patterns, standards, and long-term technical roadmaps.
• Drive decisions around service decomposition, API strategy, and extensibility.
• Architect and optimize cloud-native systems on AWS.
• Design for high availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Own containerization and orchestration strategy (Docker, Kubernetes) in production.
• Champion observability, reliability engineering, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years architecting multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS platforms serving enterprise customers.
• Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, MySQL, and RESTful API design.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production environments.
• Excellent technical communication and cross-functional leadership skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features in production.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch and real-time messaging systems (Kafka, SQS).
• Familiarity with multi-jurisdiction labor compliance requirements.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary range of $250,000 - $350,000 + Stock Equity.
• $0 monthly premium for flexible medical, dental, and vision plans effective on the first day of employment.
• 401k plan with company matching.
• Discretionary Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays.
• Parental Leave and Monthly Wellness Reimbursement.
• Monthly Lunch on Legion.