Staff Software Engineer - Fast Response
Legend is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Fast Response team. This role is focused on ensuring that products remain reliable, stable, and responsive for millions of customers.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in resolving complex production issues, improving engineering processes, and helping teams deliver high-quality customer experiences with confidence.
- Own the rapid diagnosis and resolution of production issues across Gaming products to deliver a reliable experience for customers.
- Investigate, prioritise, and resolve complex bugs to reduce customer impact while improving platform stability and performance.
- Build and improve triage processes that enable the team to respond to incidents quickly, consistently, and effectively.
- Work across multiple engineering teams to identify root causes, implement permanent fixes, and prevent recurring issues.
- Lead by example through hands-on engineering, sharing knowledge, and mentoring teammates to continually improve the team's technical capability.
- Experience developing and supporting large-scale, customer-facing web applications (required).
- Strong PHP development experience alongside modern JavaScript frameworks such as React (required).
- Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues, debugging complex systems, and working across multiple services (required).
- A structured approach to incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement (required).
- Ability to balance speed with quality, making sound technical decisions in fast-paced, high-impact environments (required).
- Experience working with legacy systems and navigating technical complexity while maintaining platform stability (required).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with confidence working across engineering teams to solve challenging problems (required).
- Experience in an operational engineering, platform support, or fast-response engineering team (nice-to-have).
- Knowledge of monitoring, observability, and incident management tooling (nice-to-have).
- Experience with AWS or cloud-native infrastructure (nice-to-have).
- Starting salary from 3000 EUR per month.
- Company-wide team-building events twice a year including entertainment, catering, and accommodation.
- Engaging development opportunities at all levels.
- Tailored flexibility for work-life balance.
- Free on-site parking.
- Exciting global Legend events.
Legend is the company behind more than 25 sports and gaming brands, focused on player experience across betting and gaming. It operates with a global team of over 800 people across 10 hubs worldwide, building and growing its portfolio of brands. The company describes its approach as driven by data, creativity and collaboration, summarised in its "Mindset, Vision, Performance" formula. Headquartered in St Helier, Jersey, Legend operates hubs across Europe and North America. In 2026 Genius Sports announced a definitive agreement to acquire the company.