Lead Engineer for kids.lego.com

Job Description

Are you interested in technically leading a highly skilled international team? Bring your proficiency in technical leadership and solid frontend or full stack development and come join a team that delivers products reaching millions of kids!

Core Responsibilities

• Daily contribute technically on a high level by solving challenging problems from the team's backlog.
• Develop, operate, and maintain robust and scalable solutions - striking the right balance between feature set, security, quality, and deadlines, applying a "you build it – you run it" philosophy.
• Be responsible for adhering to the defined quality standards both regarding product and processes.
• Continuously improve the health of the team's codebase and systems, from dev to live.
• Ensure world-class quality and be a steward of the values that consumers expect from our brand.
• Bring your curiosity to explore emerging web/frontend technologies and methods, seeing opportunities that can help us improve and move our solutions to the next level.
• Support our journey towards API-led integration as seen from a frontend perspective.
• Build and apply security/privacy standard methodologies from ideation to production release and beyond.

Play your part in our team succeeding

As part of the digital organization, specifically the Kids & Ecosystem Technology department, our mission is to create and run a resilient ecosystem, enabling digital experiences. Our responsibilities are, amongst other things, kids.lego.com and LEGO Play.

You will build and design the frontends, collaborating closely with the designers and product managers. As a Lead Engineer, you will coach and inspire the team through your expertise, driving a culture that continuously contributes and even challenges cross-team initiatives and strategy development.

You will work on experiences that will reach millions of kids and adults worldwide. You will join a highly skilled international team that eats agility for breakfast and values individual contributions and team spirit. Playing and having fun is an integrated part of working.

Do you have what it takes?

We envision you have a Software Engineering or Computer Scientist background, but if you are self-taught and have many incredible experiences in your collection of work, show us what you can do. You have a proven knowledge with 6+ years of experience either as a full stack - or frontend engineer.

• 3+ years of experience in leading an end-to-end feature development team.
• Solid foundations in HTML5 and CSS3
• 6+ years of documented experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar programming languages.
• Experience with frameworks and tools such as React, Next.js, Vue.js, Less, SCSS, Redux, GraphQL, Node.js.
• A great teammate, being part of a full-featured team with a positive approach and good collaboration - and communication skills.
• The ability to get people involved in complex technical decisions.
• Passion for collaborating with UX/UI designers to create world-class experiences.
• Experience with operating high-performance and secure web applications in the public cloud, e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

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, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

We are highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seek to encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in our team.

We are 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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the team today.