Principal Engineer Full Time

LEGO Gruppe

Job Description

Do you want to be a part of the Digital Technology team at the LEGO Group?

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our team based in London to help support our teams building amazing digital products for LEGO shoppers, consumers and colleagues around the world.

Core Responsibilities

• Influencing and problem solving to help product teams and engineering leadership to craft a connected, seamless, personalised ecosystem through an interconnected set products, services and platforms.

• Evangelising, designing and building an API economy for our products and external users, in an agile way that ensures loose coupling but with tight alignment.

• Helping product teams to retire legacy technology solutions and ensuring we unpick the technology tangle that is left behind.

• Supporting the technical roadmap across product teams and helping to secure consistent technology solution design and component or service re-use.

• Providing technical leadership through advocacy and coaching across product domains to ensure delivery of exceptional technical solutions.

• Building prototypes and creating examples by being at the front of proof of concepts and innovations, able to influence from a position of knowledge and experience as a software engineer.

• Contributing cross-functionally, pairing with engineers at all levels to support their learning to co-develop great outcomes.

• Active contributor and participant to the cluster leadership team and accountability for indirect leadership of the organisation with peers.

Play your part in our team succeeding

This cluster of products is responsible for the LEGO Group’s direct to consumer technology ecosystem – from our global ecommerce and brand engagement website, through to our branded retail stores and all of the technology that ties them together with common services.

Joining our technology family means you are part of something big and meaningful. We are the technology enablers who ensure that experience touch points for our shoppers (D2C) and customers (B2B) are as seamless, efficient and delightful as possible. Work/life balance and flexibility are part of our culture which is centred around phenomenal collaboration, flat hierarchies, and having fun at work.

Our current tech stack abstract: Among a broad field of technology, we primarily rely on the following – JavaScript (React / Node.js), GraphQL, Serverless, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, Kinesis etc). We also use a number of MACH (Microservices, API, Cloud First, Headless) SaaS platforms as well as services from the likes of Salesforce and Adobe.

The Principal Engineer role will report directly into the Senior Vice President of Markets & Channels Technology.

Note, flexibility in product focus and tech stack may be required dependent on future needs.

Do you have what it takes?

• Communication and coding are your two areas of expertise because – you love building amazing products and convincing your peers and partners of the right approach.

• Empowering and mentoring is important to you and you love teaching your skills and approach to others.

• When you speak, people listen and trust your expert opinion. People look up to you and seek to become as skilled as you are. You inspire people to follow you, not by dictating or controlling but thanks to your skill in your craft and your positions as an internal (and maybe external) inspiring leader in your field.

• You have a strategic approach and know how to stay on focused. You are skilled in organisational change, open to new directions, patient with people and you have superb interpersonal and communication skills.

• You’re an excellent problem solver who is not fixed on technology but looks at how to craft the best solution. You love a technical challenge and filling in the dots to ensure that all requirements are understood and then delivered (without perfecting the plan before building it!).

Nice to have experience working with:

• Large scale, global ecommerce systems and operations.

• Composable architectures and vendor agnostic application stacks.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO team today.