Associate Software Engineer – API Gateway Platform

the LEGO Group; Billund; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Insurance (life and disability)

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid workplace (3 days in office)

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark, is seeking an Associate Software Engineer for its API Gateway Platform within Digital Platforms. You will design and operate API gateway capabilities, collaborate with product teams, and contribute to self-service tooling and scalable platform features.

The role emphasizes learning from experienced engineers, cloud-native practices, Kubernetes/Docker, REST/GraphQL APIs, and fluent English communication in a global team.

Qualifications

• Experience with C#, TypeScript, or Golang in modern cloud environments.
• Familiarity with API development using REST or GraphQL approaches.
• Comfortable with Kubernetes, Docker, observability, and troubleshooting practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate API gateway capabilities that support reliable integrations at scale.
• Develop self-service tools, automations, and AI-assisted solutions that improve engineering efficiency.
• Collaborate with product teams to deliver secure, user-focused API platform features.
• Support platform operations through incident management and structured on-call rotation.
• Contribute to engineering communities by sharing knowledge and promoting API principles.

Skills

C#

TypeScript

Golang

REST

GraphQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

English communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Job Description

Just imagine building the digital pathways behind every LEGO® experience. Then make it real. As an Associate Software Engineer in our API Gateway Platform team within Digital Platforms, you'll help shape the services connecting systems across the LEGO Group while learning from experienced engineers in a collaborative environment.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The API Gateway Platform team within the API Management area develops, maintains, and operates the API gateway supporting LEGO® IT integrations across the globe. Together, we're creating self-service capabilities, improving developer experiences, and scaling our platform for software engineers worldwide, while building, rebuilding and inspiring new ways of working through shared learning and curiosity.

The API Platform teams are the pillars of our Digital Platforms department. The goal is to build and maintain platforms, tools and libraries that can be reused and shared across all our product domains as well as enabling engineers across the LEGO Group to adopt our platforms and standard methodologies.

The API Platform is at the core of our API first strategy; we believe that APIs are the key for enabling business agility and provide the way for truly empowered product teams that can access the data they need when they need it. For this we strive to provide an obedient, scalable and self-serviced API Platform that helps the LEGO Group achieve a common API surface and standardized consumption.

We are an international team based at the vibrant LEGO® Campus in Billund. The work environment is exciting, inspiring, and flexible – and we have some fun along the road!

Core Responsibilities

• Design and operate API gateway capabilities that support reliable integrations at scale.
• Develop self-service tools, automations, and AI-assisted solutions that improve engineering efficiency.
• Collaborate with product teams to deliver secure, user-focused API platform features.
• Support platform operations through incident management and structured on-call rotation.
• Contribute to engineering communities by sharing knowledge and promoting API principles.

Do you have what it takes?

• Experience with C#, TypeScript, or Golang and modern cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with API development using REST or GraphQL approaches.
• Comfortable working with Kubernetes, Docker, observability, and troubleshooting practices.
• Clear English communication skills and a collaborative approach to solving problems.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Lua, NGINX, networking concepts, or infrastructure-as-code.
• Exposure to open-source projects, API management, or platform engineering practices.

Additional details on this position

This role works closely with digital product teams and supports priorities including API gateway capabilities for manufacturing environments and emerging agentic architecture initiatives. You'll have opportunities to learn, explore new technologies, and help shape how engineers use our platform across the LEGO Group.

Please note If you require any reasonable accommodation or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.

This position is Professional Skyline. Relocation support is not offered.

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.

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.