Lead Engineer

About The LEGO Group

Based on the iconic LEGO® BRICK, the lego group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of play materials.

Children are our role models and the importance of play has been at the heart of our business ever since 1932 when the company was founded. Their curiosity, creativity, and imagination inspire everything we do.

Position

Do you want to be part of deciding how the LEGO® Digital Avatars interact digitally with millions of kids globally?

Then join the LEGO Group as an engineering lead for the LEGO Avatar team!

Core Responsibilities

Together with the Digital Product Designer and the Product Manager, you plan the direction for the product, and you follow through to completion. You can expect to use your technical experience to:

• Lead the engineering efforts for the team including driving the technical architecture
• Mentor engineering colleagues and develop the technical skills of others
• Work with stakeholders across the LEGO Group to identify new and exciting opportunities for bringing avatars to life!

Play your part in our team succeeding

As part of Kids Technology, you will join our mission of creating and operating great digital LEGO® experiences for Kids. Our department is engineering, architecture, and product lead. We work in agile and empowered product teams, each pursuing their own part of the greater mission.

Our responsibilities are, among other things, LEGO.com/Kids, the LEGO Life app, and the LEGO Digital Building Instructions. You will take part in building and designing backends for frontends, rest services, APIs and collaborate closely with app and frontend developers in and outside your product team. On this journey, we strive to remain in the lead when it comes to utilizing the cloud to its full potential, for instance, through serverless architecture.

You will work on experiences that will reach millions of kids and adults worldwide, and you will join a highly skilled international team that values individual talents and team spirit, where playing and having fun is an integral part of working.

Your qualification

You come with a natural curiosity to see problems as opportunities and can apply different perspectives when finding solutions. Technically you come with:

• Extensive working experience with hands on software development where most has been in the role as fullstack developer with C#/NodeJS/Typescript
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud solutions
• Experience with React or similar frontend frameworks

Besides the above experience with Unity3D and WebGL would also be relevant.

What we offer

Here are some of what to 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 
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based
• 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
• Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency with you during the recruitment process