Job Description

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

We are looking for Software Engineer to join our growing team based in London to help support our teams building the digital retail experience at the LEGO Group including our digital flagship, LEGO.com.

Core Responsibilities

Our engineers work in interdisciplinary product teams each arranged around a clear product goal with responsibility for delivery of their own product roadmaps. The core responsibilities for a software engineer are:

• Collaborate with other software engineers, product managers and digital designers to deliver both new functionality and iterative improvements to our Shopper Technology platform.

• Build efficient and reusable applications and services using JavaScript / TypeScript. Our platform is based on a Next.js / GraphQL front end and back end Node.js microservices running in AWS.

• Provide technical guidance/informal coaching to other engineers to enable their professional development

• Lead code reviews with other engineers

• Identify and resolve scalability and performance issues

Play your part in our team succeeding

Working closely with the whole product team, our Software Engineers play a vital role in securing the quality, security and stability of our digital retail experience. We are working from the offices 3 days per week.

Do you have what it takes?

• Significant commercial experience building cloud-native microservices in AWS - our event-based services layer utilises Node.js and is built mainly on the AWS Serverless stack including Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis and DynamoDB

• Experience building, supporting and monitoring production APIs - REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI

• Expert knowledge of modern JavaScript-focused frameworks and technologies – Node.js, Next.js framework, React and associated libraries and tooling including GraphQL (Apollo), Webpack, Babel and Jest

• Expert knowledge of CSS with a solid focus on accessibility and cross-browser compatibility – experience with CSS-in-JS is strongly preferred

• Previous experience of working with optimising front end performance for mobile devices

• Commercial experience with modern CI/CD and engineering tooling – we use Amazon Web Services, GitHub Actions and CDK/Terraform extensively

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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 underrepresented 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.