Lead Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to join our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Technology team!

Are you passionate about leading engineering teams to build robust, cloud-native solutions that empower creativity at scale? Do you want to help shape the digital tools used by our designers to create the models loved by kids and adults around the world?

If that sounds like you… join us!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

Take responsibility for designing the technical solution with the engineering team while collaborating on the discovery with product managers, design leads, and business partners.

Develop, operate & maintain robust and scalable solutions - striking the right balance between feature set, security, quality, and urgency.

Continuously improve the health of the team's codebase and systems, from dev to live, ensuring the current state is visible outside the team.

Ensure extraordinary quality and be a steward of our values that consumers expect from our brand.

Bring your curiosity to explore new technologies that can help us improve and move our solutions.

Actively participate and contribute to cross-organizational initiatives, sharing knowledge and building communities.

Play your part in our team succeeding

We are undergoing a major digital transformation of PLM system, shifting from a monolithic to a distributed architecture.

As Lead Engineer, you will lead the team developing applications that supports the product design phase within this new distributed PLM ecosystem. This includes bringing together and integrating data from our design portfolio as well as LEGO elements models and building instructions.

An integral part of this is a user facing application used by hundreds of LEGO® model designers and creative leads to improve and support their workflows while creating the models going into the sets that we all know and love.

"To lead the technical part if this product team is to have a decisive impact on one of the LEGO Group’s most critical digital transformation journeys while improving the day-to-day of our colleagues who design the LEGO® models that inspire kids and adults around the globe."

Do you have what it takes?

Significant experience in software engineering, with expertise in cloud-native solutions (AWS preferred), software architecture paradigms (conceptual and practical), and software development methodologies (such as TDD and BDD)

Demonstrated ability in a leadership role, either as a technical lead or team lead, with a strong focus on mentoring and team development

Experienced in Python on building production software with multiple collaborators

Understanding the security aspects of web-based solutions

Experience building synchronous and asynchronous APIs

Understanding Domain Driven Design and loosely coupled systems

Shown ability in leading an end-to-end feature development team through modern agile methodologies

Experience with databases, both relational and NoSQL

Effective communication skills, capable of engaging and leading complex technical discussions and decision-making processes within and across teams

Passionate about producing high-quality technical documentation and visual representations to guide and communicate product development processes

Demonstrated ability to connect and collaborate optimally across technical and non-technical roles, ensuring the tactical and strategic alignment of solutions

Nice to have

Experience with continuous delivery, DevOps, serverless architecture and domain driven design

Experience with C#/.NET Framework

Experience with Graph databases

Knowledge of JavaScript, Typescript and the React framework

Working with infrastructure as code (CDK, Terraform or the likes)

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.