Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Exciting opportunity to help craft the future of LEGO BrickLink®!

Join our team to work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate across teams, and shape the tools that support the LEGO Group's creative community. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and love building high-quality software, we’d love to hear from you.

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

• Take ownership for designing the technical solution of the experience and build the best-in-class solutions in close collaboration with Product- and Design Leads.

• Collaborate across product teams in the BrickLink value stream.

• Develop, operate & maintain robust and scalable solutions - striking the right balance between feature set, security, quality, and deadlines, applying a “you build it – you run it” philosophy.

• 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 world-class quality and be a steward of the LEGO values that consumers expect from our brand.

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

• The position is primarily focused on engineering the backend part of our experiences, but if you prefer to work full stack there is also room and opportunities for you.

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

• Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to the team's continuous improvement.

Play your part in our team succeeding

In Creator and AFOL Technology we are assisting LEGO BrickLink® getting integrated into the LEGO Groups digital ecosystem to support an ambitious growth journey.

In this role you will work on modernizing the BrickLink technology platform and implement new features together with your team.

We are looking for a profile primarily focused on backend and cloud engineering with C#, however, there will be opportunities to work full stack if skills and interests allow for it.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive experience from a related IT position as full stack, backend, or web engineer.

• Experienced in the C# language on the .Net framework.

• Understanding of security aspects of web based solutions.

• Experience building REST services/APIs.

• Understanding Domain Driven Design and loosely coupled systems.

• Proven ability in leading an end-to-end feature development team through modern agile methodologies.

• Experience with databases, both relational and NoSQL.

• Working knowledge of the AWS Cloud platform or Microsoft Azure.

• A great collaborator with effective communication skills.

Nice to have

• You are not foreign to concepts like continuous delivery, DevOps, serverless architecture and domain driven design.

• Knowledge of Node.js, JavaScript/Typescript.

• Experience with Cloud native development and Managed Cloud infrastructure (e.g. DNS, CDN, Load balancing etc.).

• 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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.