Lead Engineer
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Job Summary
Job Description
Just imagine helping millions more shoppers discover the right product while a platform handles 150% more traffic at a fraction of the cost. Then make it real.
About the role
As our Lead Software Engineer youll help shape the future of the LEGOGroups digital shopper experience across mobile apps and the foundations that support them. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where youll spend most of your time contributing directly or indirectly to delivery guiding architecture and helping teams make sound technical decisions. Youll bring a broad systems view while staying close to the code working across product teams that serve shopper and retail experiences at significant scale.
Required Qualifications
Built and operated production software in JavaScript and TypeScript at scale.
Led architectural decisions for large public-facing digital products documenting trade-offs and long-term outcomes.
Delivered cloud-native services on AWS Azure or GCP including distributed or microservice-based systems.
Shaped technical direction across multiple teams while remaining an active contributor to software delivery.
ImplementedGraphQL-powered applications or services in production environments.
Improved platform scalability performance or operational cost through measurable engineering changes.
Preferred Qualifications
Developed and supported modern React React Native or Expo applications.
Designed and operated event-driven architectures in production.
Managed CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code using tools such as GitHub Actions Terraform or CDK.
Scaled consumer commerce platforms with significant traffic growth and availability requirements.
What youll build
Technical direction for product areas across LEGO digital shopper experiences.
Architectural improvements that support continued traffic growth while maintaining efficiency and reliability.
Solutions that improve product discoverability and support evolving European compliance requirements.
Engineering standards covering testing security observability accessibility and performance.
Strong technical partnerships with product managers and digital designers from discovery through delivery.
If youve worked in a role where youve scaled public-facing platforms balanced technical and business outcomes and lived with the long-term impact of your architectural decisions youll feel at home here. What matters most is bringing systems thinking practical judgement and a track record of turning complex challenges into sustainable solutions.
Life on the team
Youll join ShopperTechnologya collaborative engineering environment focused on creating great digital experiences for shoppers. Lead Engineers act as visible technical leaders within their teams helping others grow while contributing meaningful technical work themselves. We work in a hybrid rhythm spending three days together in the office and value people who can zoom into the detail when needed while keeping sight of the bigger picture.
What success looks like
Success means helping teams evolve the foundations behind LEGO shopper experiences through steady incremental improvements that scale.Youll work closely with product teams engineers designers and retail-focused stakeholders as traffic continues to grow and new platform capabilities are introduced. Youll be recognised for making good architectural calls improving efficiency and helping teams deliver outcomes that create value beyond their own products.
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.
Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO team today.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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