Job Description

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

We are looking for Software Engineers (front end, back end and full stack) 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.
• Participate in code reviews
• Focus on sharing knowledge 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.

Do you have what it takes?

• Previous experience with modern JavaScript-focused front-end frameworks and technologies – Node.js, Next.js framework, React and associated libraries and tooling including GraphQL (Apollo), Webpack, Babel and Jest (front end and full stack candidates)
• Detailed knowledge of CSS with a strong focus on accessibility and cross-browser compatibility – experience with CSS-in-JS is preferred (front end candidates)
• Previous experience of working with optimising front end performance for mobile devices (front end candidates)
• Previous experience building cloud-native microservices in AWS, Azure or GCP - 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 (back end and full stack candidates)
• CI/CD and engineering tooling is a bonus – we use Amazon Web Services, GitHub Actions and Terraform extensively

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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 and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

• Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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.