Lead Engineer - Shopper Technology

Do you want to be part of our Shopper Technology 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.

• 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.
• Proactively sponsor and mentor senior engineers across an area.
• Play your part in our team succeeding.
• Working closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers, provide technical guidance and help make critical technical decisions ensuring that the applications we build are secure, scalable, accessible, maintainable and meet our performance expectations.

Teams are working from the office 3 days per week.

Do you have what it takes?

• 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.
• 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.

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. 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.