Staff Software Engineer - Community

About Legend

At Legend, we're building next-level player experiences. With 20+ years of proven success we’re the world's leading Sports and Gaming marketing company.

Our people are our edge. 600+ sharp, ambitious Legends across 22+ countries who move fast, learn quickly and win together. Here growth isn’t a perk, it’s the standard. You’ll stretch, level-up and carve out a career as bold as the products we build. We celebrate wins and create experiences that people talk about for years - for our players & for each other. If you’re ready to shape the future of player experience and enjoy the ride while you do it, this is where you’ll thrive.

The Role

Legend is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join to support our Gaming business working on Community focused feature development.

This role will help shape the future of our community, membership and user-retention experiences. You’ll work on products that keep users coming back to our sites, including membership areas, personalised dashboards, gamified engagement journeys, homepage experiences, and the modernisation of legacy platforms.

You’ll be a senior technical leader in the team, working closely with Product, Engineering leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to solve complex problems, evaluate technical options, and ensure the solutions we build are scalable, maintainable and sound. This is a hands-on role where you’ll influence architecture, drive engineering best practices, and help raise technical standards across a globally distributed team.

If you’re looking for a role where you can combine hands-on engineering, architecture, product thinking and coaching — this is the position for you.

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.

Take part and lead decisions for the major capabilities, helping teams translate business and product needs into clear, practical technical roadmaps.

Serve as a product-engineering subject-matter expert (SME) for the domain, mapping capabilities into well defined domains and ensuring they deliver required business and product services within the wider technical platform.

Lead by example through hands-on coding, creating new capabilities or evolving existing ones and driving adoption of best software engineering principles and practices, alongside continuous mentorship and guidance to the teams.

Communicate complex solutions clearly to stakeholders inside and outside the area, while embedding a strong product engineering culture across teams.

What You'll Bring

Strong hands-on experience building customer-facing web products using React and Next.js.

A strong front-end engineering background, ideally with full-stack experience to work confidently across APIs, integrations and system boundaries.

Proven experience designing and evolving software architecture across complex systems, multiple codebases or related product domains.

A strong product engineering mindset, with the ability to translate product requirements into clear technical designs, staged delivery plans and high-quality implementations.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

A coaching mindset — someone who enjoys helping others grow, raising standards and making best practices stick without ego.

Ideally you will also have:

Experience with PHP and Vue/Vue components.

Experience working on membership, community, personalisation, gamification or user-retention products.

Experience working on high-traffic websites.

Experience applying Domain-Driven Design, SOLID, GRASP or other software design principles in a practical product environment.

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.

Additional Information

Legend is an Equal Opportunity Employer, but that’s just the start. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. That’s why we’re dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and diverse team- which includes individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, identities and experiences. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout your application process, please speak to your Talent Partner or contact the team on talent@l1.com, and we'll do all we can to support you.