Job Description

DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF OUR LEGO.COM PLATFORM TEAM AT THE LEGO GROUP?

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team based in London building the digital retail experience at the LEGO Group.

Core responsibilities

You’ll spend your time working in one of our multi-functional product teams building and maintaining the applications and services at the core of our shopper technology platform serving LEGO.com and our retail stores around the world.

• Lead the solution design and build of efficient and reusable cross-channel solutions for our shopper platform.
• Actively lead engineering strategy for a critical area of Markets & Channels Technology focused on both current requirements and long-term direction.
• Partnering with engineering manager, product owners and architects to provide technical leadership within product squads and support the timely delivery of technical solutions.
• You will work with other engineering leads to establish and advocate the best quality engineering practices across the organisation and drive initiatives focused on improving our overall engineering practices.
• Proactively sponsor and mentor senior engineers across an area.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Working closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers, our Lead Engineers play a key role in the team providing technical guidance and helping to make critical technical decisions ensuring that the applications we build are secure, scalable, accessible, maintainable and meet our performance expectations. Our teams are coming to the office 3 days per week.

Do you have what it takes?

• Commercial experience with NodeJS and other JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience providing technical leadership to a team working in a resilient and scalable microservices' environment – our API event-based services layer is built mainly on the AWS Serverless stack – Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, Kinesis and DynamoDB.
• In depth understanding of modern CI/CD and engineering tooling – we use Amazon Web Services, GitHub Actions and Terraform extensively.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering concepts including monitoring, observability, automation, and release engineering to create reliable and maintainable systems.
• Extensive experience working with technical and commercial partners outside of your own team including third party vendors.
• Actively work with the security team, as well as their own team, to refine their team's approach to security based on organisational security strategy. Champions a security first approach and leads by example.
• Creator of an environment that drives continuous improvement and proactively analyses and improves applications that fall under the team’s responsibility.
• Able to delegate engineering tasks to balance your workload and enable individual growth of other engineers.
• Lead by example to create a safe and inclusive engineering culture.
• Be an active contributor to open source or inner-source initiatives and communities and be recognised for your thoughtful and considered contributions.

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

What’s 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 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.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll 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 seeks to 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.

Research shows that women and people from different minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

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