Senior Software Engineer, Developer Relations

Job Description

Developer Relations sits within the Developer Experience and Cloud Foundation (DX & CF) area and operates as a high-leverage boundary-spanning function across the LEGO Group. The team collaborates daily with software engineers platform teams security compliance and leadership to ensure that developer practices tooling and policies are aligned with business objectives and technical realities.

By operating at the intersection of technology culture and organizational systems the Senior Engineer in Developer Relations helps scale modern software practices rebuild trust between developers and leadership and ensure that experimentation and play translate into real business impact.

Core Responsibilities

Come lead and co-own our developer enablement programs identifying gaps in developer experience and enabling teams through high-leverage experimental interventions. Act as a senior technical boundary-spanner aligning software developers leadership and business units by translating between technical realities and organizational objectives.

• Build run and evaluate experiments at the groundbreaking of software development practices including emergent toolchains platform practices and agentic AI.
• Benchmark developer enablement initiatives against industry frameworks such as DORA and DX Core 4 using data to guide maturity and prioritization.
• Play a central role in crafting and delivering the LEGO Groups internal developer conference for 1200 developers with a solid focus on content quality relevance and impact.
• Serve as a trusted advocate for developers by gathering feedback identifying systemic friction and influencing cultural procedural and policy-level decisions.

Play your part in our team succeeding

At The LEGO Group our Developer Relations team also recognized as developer advocacy or evangelism is anchored in encouraging robust connections with software developers and the overarching developer community.

Our mission is to empower developers with the vital resources tools and mentorship they need to harness the full potential of our products technologies or platforms. This translates into a multitude of responsibilities ranging from technical advocacy. Where we nurture the merits and intricacies of our technological offerings to content creation ensuring developers have access to top-tier informative materials.

We also pride ourselves on our community building establishing a vibrant ecosystem of developers and forging strategic partnerships that drive mutual growth. Within this vibrant nexus the Communication Strategist role emerges as a beacon magnifying our engagements orchestrating communications. Ensuring that the developers voice resonates deeply throughout the organization reinforcing trust dedication and long-term growth.

This position sits in our LEGO Hub in Løvstræde Copenhagen soon moving to Postbyen offering an exciting inspiring and flexible work environment and a little fun play as well!

Do you have what it takes

The preferred candidate has senior-level software engineering experience with a solid grasp of modern development practices and delivery pipelines. Demonstrated ability to compose and lead developer enablement or platform-adjacent initiatives with organization-wide impact. Strong systems thinking with the ability to diagnose socio-technical problems beyond tools alone.

• Experience in bridging communication between technical teams and non-technical collaborators including leadership.
• Familiarity with developer efficiency and maturity frameworks (e.g. DORA DX Core or similar).
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and experimenting with new practices tools and ways of working.

Also effective communication and teamwork abilities with the capacity to work well and Agile in a team environment. Together with strong mentorship and experience supporting the growth of junior engineers or students.

To succeed in this role you preferably have competence within the following:

• Education in computer science Software Engineering or a related field.
• Experience working in internal Developer Relations Developer Advocacy or similar boundary-spanning roles.
• Hands-on experience with generative or agentic AI systems in the software development lifecycle.
• Experience crafting or curating technical conference content or large internal knowledge-sharing events.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern DevOps practices.

Advanced English at a professional level both written and verbally are needed since we are an international gathered team.

Please note: If you require any reasonable accommodation or adjustments throughout the application process please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.

This position is in Manager Specialist Skyline. Relocation support is not offered.

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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 youre interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Whats 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 youll 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 youll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team youll 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 seeksto 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 Childrens 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 Childrens Rights.

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