Senior Manager - Software Engineering in London

The Shopper Technology department sits within the Marketing & Channels Technology organisation at the LEGO Group. Our mission is to engage shoppers with fully digital experiences and connect physical and digital retail as shoppers move between store and web.

Core Responsibilities

• Guiding the team toward the simplest solutions that deliver working software to shoppers around the world.
• Setting and maintaining a high bar for code quality, testing, and refactoring across the codebase.
• Participating in user interviews, prototyping, and solution exploration to keep delivery grounded in real shopper needs.
• Prioritising features, bugs, and chores alongside product and design partners, with an eye on where the team’s time creates the most value.
• Coaching engineers to grow their craft and adapt confidently as tools and practices evolve around them.
• Playing an active part in making the team succeed.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with web technologies – ideally Typescript and Node.js – and a strong sense of well‑structured, maintainable, documented and accessible code.
• A solid understanding of cloud services and event‑driven architectures, and how they underpin scalable, resilient digital platforms.
• A practical, forward‑leaning approach to AI in the development workflow – thinking critically about where it helps, where it doesn’t, and what guardrails matter.
• Demonstrable ability to coach and grow engineers through a period of significant change, helping them embrace new ways of working while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals.
• A natural default toward inclusive behaviours and highly collaborative ways of working.
• The ability to strike a balance between perfection and frequent shipping.
• Enthusiasm, self‑motivation, and genuine curiosity about where software engineering is heading.
• Experience with accessibility standards and performance testing.
• Familiarity with lean product development, CI/CD, and small batch delivery.

Benefits

• Family Care Leave – enhanced paid leave options.
• Insurances – life and disability coverage for all colleagues.
• Wellbeing – resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing, plus opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount – generous discount starting from day 1.
• Bonus – eligible reward through the company bonus scheme when goals are reached.
• Workplace – primary workplace location assigned; hybrid policy of approx. three days per week in the office (policy discussed during recruitment).

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (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.