Head of Product Engineering
Posted:
- Location
- Hybrid
- Job type
- Permanent
As Head of Product Engineering
About Legend
We’re Legend. The team quietly building #1 products that make noise in the most competitive comparison markets in the world. iGaming. Sports Betting. Personal Finance.
We exist to build better experiences. From amplified career paths to supercharged online journeys — for our people and our users, we deliver magic rooted in method. With over 500 Legends and counting, we’re helping companies turbocharge their brand growth in over 18 countries worldwide.
If you’re looking for a company with momentum and the opportunity to progress at pace, Legend has it.
Unlock the Legend in you.
As the
Head of Product Engineering
, you will lead a transformational journey in a multi-functional environment, shaping and scaling a product engineering department that aligns with our business and product vision. Your mission is to bring to life our vision of white-labelled, multi-tenant capabilities that power the core pillars of Legends: Gaming, Sports, and Money. This work will be critical to supporting the rapid expansion of our diverse brands and elevating customer interactions across multiple products.
You will guide your engineering teams in designing, implementing, and evolving complex, scalable capabilities shared across the platform and organisation. By driving synergy, scalability, and reusability of services, your leadership will be instrumental in creating central features that underpin our commercial success. A strong focus on a data-driven approach will ensure full visibility and reconciliation of high-quality commercial data, benefiting both business and engineering users.
As an engineering leader, you will drive best practices, performance management, and outcome-driven development. You will guide your teams toward full ownership and accountability for major areas of Legend's platform, empowering them to deliver high-impact solutions. Your leadership will also be crucial in embedding new capabilities and principles that transform the entire engineering chapter.
Beyond technical execution, you will play a fundamental role in the engineering leadership team, strategically shaping the future of Legend’s engineering organisation. This is a rare opportunity to join a company that, despite its massive success, is committed to continuous investment and transformation, offering you the platform to make a huge impact and differentiate the company from its competitors.
Your Impact:
Lead the development and scaling of a multi-tenant platform, enabling a world-class customer experience for over a billion users annually across 106 countries.
Drive transformative change by embedding best practices, modernizing engineering capabilities, and introducing innovative approaches like Domain-Driven Design to elevate the platform.
Play a pivotal role in positioning the company ahead of competitors through strategic improvements in UX, global content management, and multi-tenant web-tier platforms for Gaming, Sports, and Money sectors.
Contribute to shaping the future of affiliate marketing with the stability and resources of an already successful company, driving impactful growth and innovation.
What You'll Bring:
10+ years of engineering management experience leading product engineering teams that deliver large-scale, customer-facing platforms, with a proven track record of hands-on technical leadership.
6+ years of hands-on development experience building high-traffic platforms using modern programming languages (Java, C#, Kotlin, Python, etc.), applying best design principles like SOLID and design patterns.
Expertise in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and modular, API-first architectures, with a strong understanding of scaling, monitoring, and designing concurrent systems, including RESTful APIs and asynchronous solutions.
Strong product mindset with the ability to shape roadmaps, lead iterative technical implementations, and maintain high standards for readability, testability, and continuous refactoring.
Proven experience working with cloud computing platforms, particularly Amazon AWS, and a focus on improving performance, scalability, and efficiency using data-driven approaches.
Continuous learner, staying current with the latest technology trends and evaluating new technologies with pragmatism and long-term vision.
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!
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.
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.