Lead Gameplay Engine Engineer – Hybrid & Toy Tech

LEGO A/S; Billund; On-site; DKK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid working model

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Billund is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to define and drive the architecture of our high-performance game engine and software platforms. You will lead design and implementation while staying hands-on with challenging problems across motion, sound and color detection.

You will provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and align engineering work with product goals, ensuring a scalable, reliable platform for LEGO play experiences across all ages.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and building reusable platforms and components as the foundation for building scalable play experiences.
• Strong experience in technical leadership of software engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience resolving complex architecture and performance challenges that affect a platform.
• Strong software development skills, fluent in C++/C.
• Experience with Domain Specific Languages (DSL).
• Proven ability to lead technical delivery across multiple components, manage architectural dependencies and resolve cross-team engineering issues.
• Strong experience in using task management software like Jira.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions and align engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategic objectives into an achievable technical roadmap, identify and communicate the trade-off and risks, align the software delivery with stakeholders.
• Define architecture and vision,align with product and platform objectives.
• Lead the design and implementation of the engine capabilities,remain hands-on on the technical challenging problems and architecture areas.
• Provide technical direction, review critical designs and code, raise the team's engineering standards.
• Establish engineering strategies for performance improvementand resources usage within a constrained system.
• Drive the improvement ofprocesses and workflows.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software architecture

C/C++ proficiency

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Tools

Jira

Job description

The LEGO Group in Billund is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to define and drive the architecture of our high-performance game engine and software platforms. You will lead design and implementation while staying hands-on with challenging problems across motion, sound and color detection.

You will provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and align engineering work with product goals, ensuring a scalable, reliable platform for LEGO play experiences across all ages.