Staff Software Engineer – Community

Legends

Staff Software Engineer working on community-focused feature development for Gaming products at Legend. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user retention and experience.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇸🇰 SlovakiaLead💰 €3,000 per monthWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptNext.jsPHPReactVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

ReactNext.jsPHPVuesoftware architectureAPIsDomain-Driven DesignSOLID principlesGRASP principlesperformance optimization

Soft Skills

communicationcoachingmentorshipcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingtechnical translationstakeholder engagementbest practices adherenceproduct engineering mindset