Lead Software 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 energized by working on a digital product that is a key enabler to the LEGO connected ecosystem? Are you interested in working an identity access management system that reaches millions of kids and adults?

Have you dreamed about working for the LEGO Group and are curious about our CPH engineering hub? Come and have a dialogue with us.

We are looking for a lead backend engineer for our newly established team for the LEGO® Account product in the center of Copenhagen.

Core responsibilities

Today most consumers and shoppers first encounter with the LEGO brand is through a digital experience. In this role you are part of making sure that the first impression is a great one. If you love digital and wants to go to work each morning knowing that the fruit of your work will reach a unique audience and inspire the builders of tomorrow – join our awesome team.

• As a lead developer, you provide technical leadership and are the go-to person when team members need a hand on solving technical issues, a direction on architecture as well as inspirations on new technologies
• You lead us transform the current architecture to a target architecture by leaning into architecture design, spark discussions across teams as well as tackling the most complex part of the implementation
• Our current identity management tech stack is based on .NET, Duende IdentityServer and Amazon Web Services, you will be actively developing features, architecting, (re)configuring and maintaining our robust and scalable solution by applying a “you build it – you run it” philosophy
• You actively bring security best practices to the team and continuously lift the bar of our current solution. Avoid database injection, security-misconfiguration, and perform penetration testing should not be unfamiliar with you
• You promote good engineering practices in the subdomain – CI/CD, infrastructure as Code, inner sourcing, automate testing, observability, privacy by Design etc.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The LEGO Account product is serving a great number of consumer facing experiences – just name a few – LEGO.com, LEGO Building Instructions App, LEGO Life app, LEGO IDEAS, and also our external game partners and vendors. It is our core identity and access management system to 40 millions of kids, adults, and families. It is the center piece of our LEGO® connected ecosystem.

Your qualification

• Demonstratable experience in back-end software development using C#/.NET or other high-level programming languages
• Hands-on experience with OIDC and OAuth protocols, ideally with Duende IdentityServer 
• You understand best practices in web security, ideally hands-on experience securing web-based solutions 
• Demonstratable experience in architecting and operating high-performance serverless solutions in the cloud, ideally on AWS
• Experience with databases, both relational databases, and NoSQL

Will be a plus

Experience with distributed system, event-driven architecture, event streaming platforms and backend for front end design patten

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.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

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.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.