Staff Engineer - Developer Experience

1001 LEGO System A/S; København; Hybrid; DKK 1,100,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Office/Factory/workspace

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a senior engineering leader to define and drive technical direction across Engineering Experience capabilities in a hybrid Copenhagen setting. You will shape platform strategies, set architectural standards, and enable developer productivity across multiple teams and products.

You’ll collaborate with Principal Engineers and Engineering Directors, contribute to GenAI enablement and workflow automation, and help scale internal developer platforms while aligning with

Qualifications

• Led technical direction across multiple teams, products, or engineering domains.
• Shaped platform strategies that improved engineering outcomes and adoption.
• Built software engineering and developer platform capabilities in complex environments.
• Delivered cloud and platform engineering initiatives across interconnected systems.
• Influenced architectural decisions and established common engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Establish clear technical direction across Engineering Experience capabilities.
• Increase consistency in engineering standards and architectural practices.
• Strengthen alignment between Principal Engineers, Lead Engineers, and engineering teams.
• Drive initiatives addressing systemic challenges across products and platforms.
• Increase platform adoption and measurable improvements in developer productivity.

Skills

Technical leadership

Platform strategy

Developer productivity

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

GitHub

Developer portals

Job description

About the role

Just imagine engineering teams across the LEGO Group building faster, with clearer standards, shared platforms, and more time to focus on creating value. Then make it real.

Required Qualifications

• Led technical direction across multiple teams, products, or engineering domains.
• Shaped platform strategies that improved engineering outcomes and adoption.
• Built software engineering and developer platform capabilities in complex environments.
• Delivered cloud and platform engineering initiatives across interconnected systems.
• Influenced architectural decisions and established common engineering standards.
• Translated technology strategy into practical execution through structured problem-solving and stakeholder collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Developed or scaled internal developer portals.
• Implemented engineering solutions using GitHub.
• Advanced developer tooling capabilities that improved engineering workflows.
• Guided organizational change or technical mentoring initiatives within engineering organizations.

What you'll build

• Establish clear technical direction across Engineering Experience capabilities.
• Greater consistency in engineering standards and architectural practices.
• Stronger alignment between Principal Engineers, Lead Engineers, and engineering teams.
• Initiatives that address systemic challenges across products and platforms.
• Increased platform adoption and measurable improvements in developer productivity.
• Capability-level efforts that reduce technical debt and improve engineering effectiveness.

Life on the team

You’ll join DX & Cloud Foundation within Digital Platforms & Infrastructure. We’re here to provide platforms, tooling, standards, and technical foundations that help product teams build, operate, and innovate effectively at scale. We work in a hybrid rhythm across multiple locations, staying connected through technical communities, architecture discussions, planning forums, and leadership engagement. You’ll have opportunities to support organizational change, coach engineers, and help grow technical capability through mentoring and collaboration. This position will be in our LEGO® Hub in Copenhagen, soon moving to Postbyen. The work environment is exciting, inspiring, and flexible - and we like to have fun along the way!

What success looks like

Success means becoming a trusted partner to Principal Engineers, Lead Engineers, Engineering Directors, and product teams. You’ll help reduce architectural fragmentation, create clear technical roadmaps, and strengthen alignment across capabilities.

Over the next 12 to 18 months, you’ll contribute to expanding developer experience capabilities, advancing GenAI enablement, improving workflow automation, standardizing engineering practices, and increasing platform adoption across the organization.

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. 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.

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.

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.