Lead Engineer - Shopper Technology

The LEGO Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading toy manufacturer is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join their Shopper Technology team based in London. In this role, you'll design and build innovative digital retail solutions, offer technical leadership, and mentor other engineers. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in NodeJS and JavaScript frameworks, coupled with a strong understanding of AWS Serverless architecture. The position encourages a hybrid work model, requiring time in the office for teamwork and collaboration.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellness programs

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with NodeJS and JavaScript frameworks is essential.
• Technical leadership experience in a microservices environment is required.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes and tools is needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of cross-channel solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentor other engineers.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering Managers.

Skills

NodeJS

JavaScript frameworks

AWS Serverless stack

CI/CD and engineering tooling

Mentoring and leadership

Security awareness

Continuous improvement

Team collaboration

Open source contributions

Tools

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

Job Description

Do you want to be part of our Shopper Technology team at the LEGO Group?

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team based in London building the digital retail experience at the LEGO Group.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the solution design and build of efficient and reusable cross-channel solutions for our shopper platform
• Actively lead engineering strategy for a critical area of Markets & Channels Technology focused on both current requirements and long-term direction
• Proactively sponsor and mentor senior engineers across an area.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Working closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers, our Lead Engineers play a key role in the team providing technical guidance and helping to make critical technical decisions ensuring that the applications we build are secure, scalable, accessible, maintainable and meet our performance expectations. Teams are working from the office 3 days per week.

Do you have what it takes?

• Commercial experience with NodeJS and other JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience providing technical leadership to a team working in a resilient and scalable microservices' environment – our API event-based services layer is built mainly on the AWS Serverless stack – Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, Kinesis and DynamoDB.
• In depth understanding of modern CI / CD and engineering tooling – we use Amazon Web Services, GitHub Actions and Terraform extensively.
• Extensive experience working with technical and commercial partners outside of your own team including third party vendors.
• Actively work with the security team, as well as their own team, to refine their team's approach to security based on organisational security strategy. Champions a security first approach and leads by example.
• Creator of an environment that drives continuous improvement and proactively analyses and improves applications that fall under the team’s responsibility.
• Able to delegate engineering tasks to balance your workload and enable individual growth of other engineers.
• Lead by example to create a safe and inclusive engineering culture.
• Be an active contributor to open source or inner-source initiatives and communities and be recognised for your thoughtful and considered contributions.

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.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
• 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 – 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.