Associate Software Engineer – API Gateway Platform

Lego Group; Denmark; Hybrid; DKK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark, is looking for an Associate Software Engineer to join the API Gateway Platform team within Digital Platforms. You’ll help shape services connecting systems across LEGO IT integrations and learn from experienced engineers in a collaborative environment.

Core responsibilities include designing and operating API gateway capabilities at scale, developing self-service tools and AI-assisted solutions, and collaborating with product teams to deliver secure, user-focused

Qualifications

• Experience with C#, TypeScript, or Golang and modern cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with API development using REST or GraphQL approaches.
• Clear English communication and collaborative problem solving.

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

REST APIs

GraphQL

Cloud technologies

English communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

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.

Requirements

• 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?

• 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.

We are aware of reports of fraudulent emails and social media messages from individuals falsely claiming to represent the LEGO Group recruitment teams. Please check that recruitment communications are from an official LEGO email address before responding.

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, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.