Lead Software Engineer (Game Play / Engine)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid working

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking an Expert in building gameplay features and engine technology to lead our Play Software efforts in Billund. You will bridge across technical teams to craft interactive LEGO experiences for fans of all ages.

You will translate strategic objectives into practical roadmaps, define architecture, and drive responsible, high‑quality software delivery while maintaining focus on the user experience of LEGO play.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of software engineering teams and reusable platforms.
• Strong architecture and performance optimization experience.
• Fluent in C/C++.
• Experience with Domain Specific Languages (DSL).
• Proven ability to drive technical delivery across components and teams.
• Experience using Jira or similar task management tools.
• Excellent communication to align engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate objectives into a technical roadmap with trade-offs and risks.
• Define architecture and vision aligned with product goals.
• Lead design and implementation of engine capabilities; stay hands-on on key problems.
• Provide technical direction; review critical designs and code; raise engineering standards.
• Establish strategies for performance and resource use within a constrained system.
• Drive improvements to processes and workflows.

Skills

C/C++

Leadership

Architecture

DSL

Jira

Game engines

Cross-team delivery

Communication

Tools

None

Job description

Expert in building game play features and developing engine tech? Then get your application ready, we’re looking for you!

Play Software builds technology enabled play; where LEGO play sets are combined with electronic hardware and software to build a Play experience.

As part of the Play Experience team, you will be a central part of the Play Software organization as we build interactive experiences for kids, working across all technical teams, while always focusing on the experience of LEGO fans of all ages.

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 improvement and resources usage within a constrained system.
• Drive the improvement of processes and workflows.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience with connected toys, wearables, IoT or other hardware‑software products (BLE, NFC/RFID, sensors, low‑power devices).
• Experience with game engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot) and building designer‑facing tools and data‑driven content pipelines.
• Audio programming or interactive sound design experience.
• Experience designing play for children, including playtesting with kids and working within child safety and privacy regulations.
• A passion for LEGO play and a curiosity for inventing new forms of play.

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.
• Your workplace – Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.
• Hybrid Working – Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.
• Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here.

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.

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