Senior Backend Engineer - Greenfield Packing Automation

This is a rare opportunity to join a new greenfield team at the heart of our Digital organization, helping shape how IT technology transforms manufacturing and logistics at the LEGO Group. You’ll work on initiatives that drive optimization, scalability, reliability, and usability for our factories worldwide.

Core Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate robust, secure, and scalable solutions that meet the LEGO Group’s high engineering standards.

Champion and nurture a culture of craftsmanship, quality, and continuous improvement.

Safeguard the reliability and performance of our products, with attention to DevSecOps and production-readiness.

Collaborate closely with teams across the business, including our Shanghai team, to ensure seamless integration with existing systems.

Help define the team’s vision, backlog, and ways of working, taking ownership of the greenfield initiative.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Our Platform Technology department delivers the solutions and technologies that power engineering, manufacturing, and logistics across the LEGO Group.

As part of this team, you’ll be creating innovative digital solutions for our state-of-the-art factories, directly impacting how we produce LEGO sets worldwide.

We value strong engineering practices and a passion for technology. We work in an agile environment, always seeking smarter ways to collaborate and deliver.

This is your chance to shape the future of a greenfield team, influence technology choices, and bring your ideas to life.

Do you have what it takes?

Strong programming expertise in modern .NET (C#).

Hands-on experience with relational databases and event-driven architectures (e.g., RabbitMQ).

Curious to work with new technologies

A quality-first mindset with a track record of applying best practices.

Solid grasp of agile development practices.

Comfortable operating in large, complex enterprise environments.

Ambitious and proactive — able to take responsibility, drive initiatives, and influence the product roadmap.

A strong team player and role model, collaborative and goal-oriented.

Curious, open-minded, and passionate about building a positive engineering culture (and yes, learning through play).

Bonus skills

CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, and test automation.

Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.

Experience with a front-end stack (preferably React using Typescript).

Experience with factory automation, OT systems, or industrial IoT.

Messaging technologies like MQTT, SparkplugB, or RabbitMQ.

Experience with infrastructure as code in cloud environments.

Exposure to Unified Namespace (UNS) architectures.

Familiarity with PLCs and OT systems.

Prior experience in greenfield or high-tech manufacturing environments.

Leadership:

• Decision making: Strives to be objective and reflects on their own biases when making decisions. Holds themselves accountable for decision and outcomes.

• Facilitation: Facilitates open discussions during team events and drives towards tangible outcomes and objectives within a product team.

• Coaching and mentoring: Mentors their teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability.

• Recognizing teamwork: Engages in sponsoring, recognizing, and providing feedback to other team members.

• Engineering culture: Leads the development of a no blame and inclusive engineering culture with safe space for employees to participate and contribute, while actively encouraging experimentation and prototyping.

Communication:

• Feedback: Actively seeks and proactively provides feedback both laterally across teams and upwards to engineering leads and shares technical direction transparently.

• Effective communication: Provides technical context and direction for less experienced engineers. Translates technical constraints / trade-offs to people within non-technical roles.

• Showcase work: Acts as technical guide in multiple areas and champions the achievements of the team on a regular basis and encourages engagement within the team.

• Documentation: Continuously monitors and improves the engineering documentation within the team.

• Relationship building: Works to build strong relationships with their teammates, lead, engineers, senior engineering manager, product manager as well as their teams' relevant business stakeholders.

• Handling disagreements: Encourages their teammates to openly share their opinions and contribute to discussions in a respectful manner. Approaches disagreement non-defensively and uses contradictory opinions as a basis for constructive, productive conversations. Is open to changing their perspective and plans based on others' input.

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.