Staff Engineer – Shopper Technology

Just imagine shaping the technology behind LEGO® digital shopping experiences used by customers around the world. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Staff Engineer, Shopper Technology, you'll connect engineering strategy with technical execution across a broad technology landscape at the LEGO Group. You'll report to the Vice President of Shopper Technology and work closely with Lead Engineers to create scalable, maintainable solutions that support LEGO® branded e-commerce and store experiences, including LEGO.com, membership experiences, order management, and payments. This is a permanent role with significant influence across product teams, engineering disciplines, and technology domains.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or domains in a senior engineering role
• Built solutions using AWS native services within large-scale production environments
• Developed modern applications using TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js
• Led architectural decision‑making for distributed systems with multiple dependencies and integrations
• Implemented security and data privacy practices for customer‑facing digital products
• Shaped engineering standards, technical strategy, and software development practices across teams

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications were specified for this role.

What you’ll build

• Define and evolve the shopper technology architecture across products and domains
• Create clarity around system boundaries, contracts, dependencies, and technical direction
• Enable technical collaboration, discovery, and decision‑making across product teams
• Drive consistent engineering quality and best practices across a cluster of teams
• Support the adoption of AI engineering practices that improve delivery and collaboration
• Build proof‑of‑concepts that validate new technologies and inform future investment decisions
• Partner across domains to solve complex technology challenges
• Contribute as a member of the Shopper Technology leadership team, driving cluster‑wide initiatives

If you’ve worked in a role where you’ve influenced architecture across multiple teams, guided technical strategy, and balanced hands‑on engineering with leadership responsibilities, you’ll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to turn complex technical challenges into practical, scalable solutions.

Life on the team

Shopper Technology delivers the capabilities that power the growth and innovation of the LEGO Group’s global digital and retail channels. You’ll be part of a highly connected engineering community where collaboration matters. We value clear communication, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and the ability to influence through expertise rather than authority. You’ll help teams learn, grow, and move forward together.

What success looks like

Success means creating alignment across teams while advancing a clear architectural vision for shopper technology. You’ll help teams adopt modern engineering and AI practices, improve technical consistency, and tackle complex cross‑domain challenges. Working closely with engineering, product, design, and technology leaders, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future direction of Shopper Technology.

What’s in it for you?

• 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.

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. Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, andhaving fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.