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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 Senior Engineering Manager, reporting directly to our Head of Engineering. The successful candidate will be a senior technical leader who leads by example, remaining hands-on with design and code while providing technical direction and ownership across the team.
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a high-traffic, revenue-critical commercial platform that powers multiple global brands from a single codebase, working in a genuinely healthy engineering culture with strong ownership, modern platform thinking, and the chance to make a visible, business-critical impact from day one.
In this role, we value diverse perspectives and encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed.
Your Impact
- Lead technical direction for a vertical slice team, owning systems end to end
- Remain hands-on with architecture, design, and production code where it adds most value
- Shape, review, and approve solution designs for a shared commercial platform
- Support and develop a team of engineers while maintaining high technical standards
- Ensuring the platform remains clean, scalable, and easy to work with as it grows.
- Work closely with Product to deliver revenue-critical features at scale
What You’ll Bring
- Strong background as a senior software engineer in an object-oriented language (.NET or similar)
- Proven experience leading technical design and architectural decisions
- Hands-on capability with production systems at scale and complex codebases
- Experience owning systems end to end, including databases and operational concerns
- Ability to balance individual contribution with team leadership and mentorship
- Cloud experience is desirable (AWS preferred)
The Interview Process
- 1st: Initial Chat with Talent Partner (30 mins via Zoom)
- 2nd: Take home task - you will be given 3 days to complete the task and present it back to the team, Katie Myer and Tero Vaananen (1 hour video via Zoom)
- 3rd: Final interview with our team, Lynn Stark and a Senior / Lead Developer (1 hour video via Zoom)
Why Legend?
- Super smart colleagues to work alongside and learn from.
- Engaging development opportunities at all levels.
- Tailored flexibility for your work-life balance.
- Annual discretionary bonus to reward your efforts.
- Paid annual leave PLUS a well-deserved break to recharge your batteries during the festive season! Our offices are closed between Christmas and New Year's, allowing you to enjoy downtime without dipping into your annual allowance.
- Long term incentive plan so we can all share in the growth and success of Legend.
- Exciting global Legend events, where we unite in person to ignite our shared passion and unveil the exciting strategies for the year ahead!
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 [email protected], and we'll do all we can to support you.
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