Lead Frontend 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

Are you a natural enthusiast of finding the best solutions and have a passion for Open Source? Bring your deep expertise in web development and help us build a shared web front-end platform for all the software engineering teams across the LEGO group.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence how platform engineering will be done at the LEGO group. You will meet with engineering teams across the globe, ensuring that your developer-focused products are well understood and provide value through code reuse the best methodologies.

Core Responsibilities

You will be the Lead Engineer for web technologies in our newly established Front-end Platform team, thus you will also have a shared Product Owner responsibility, driving the architecture and technical direction of our Internal Design System implementation using modern open-source tooling.

You will take the driving seat on our engineering community around web front-end development and tools and use the community as a guiding star to improve the Front-End Platform products and features.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Front-end Platform Product Team is one of the pillars of our newly established Digital Platforms department. The goal is to create and maintain tools and infrastructure that can be reused and shared across all our product domains.

We apply platform engineering and product management practices to ensure we build what brings more value to our customers (the other software engineers) and ensure a close feedback loop.

You will guide in web front-end technologies such as React, TypeScript, bundling tools, front-end runtime monitoring, and CDNs.

This role has the unique opportunity to shape the future of the Front-end Platform product team.

You will interact and learn from a diverse group of people from all over the world, all with the shared mission of inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow.

Your qualification

A preferred candidate would have extensive years of web front-end development expertise, specifically in the area of implementation of Design Systems.

• Deep expertise with React and TypeScript
• Experience with automated visual regression tests
• Semantic releases and release discipline
• Bias to action with a proactive attitude coupled with a proven focus on quality, from planning to delivery
• Comfortable with balancing the long and short-term delivery needs of the business
• An inclusive attitude that ensures feedback from other software engineers is taken into account
• An understanding of design in general and design systems in particular

Will be a plus

• Open-Source projects that you have created, are maintaining or are an active contributor to
• Experience in engaging and collaborating with both developers and designers 
• Experience with Vue.js, Angular, or other popular front-end frameworks 
• Experience with Chakra UI, Styled-System, or Tailwind
• Knowledge of CSS-in-JS libraries like Emotion
• Eagerness to explore CSS Custom Properties
• Experience with CDNs
• Digital Product Management experience

What we offer

What’s in it for you? 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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme
• Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you
• 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 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