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Principal Engineer
full-timeCopenhagen, Billund

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Location

Copenhagen, Billund

Type

full-time

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Job Description

Joining our technology family means you're part of something big and meaningful. Work life balance and flexibility are part of our culture which is centered around phenomenal collaboration, flat hierarchies, and having fun at work.

Please note that no relocation support is offered for this position

Core Responsibilities

  • Influencing and problem solving to help product teams and engineering leadership to craft a connected, seamless, personalised, and automated partner technology ecosystem through an interconnected set products, services and platforms

  • Promoting, designing and Building an API economy for our products and external users, in an agile way that ensures loose coupling but with tight alignment

  • Helping product teams to retire legacy technology solutions and ensuring we unpick the technology tangle that is left behind

  • Formulating the technical roadmap across product teams and helping to secure consistent technology solution design and component or service re-use

  • Providing technical leadership through advocacy and coaching across product domains to ensure delivery of exceptional technical solutions

  • Building prototypes and creating examples by being at the front of proof of concepts and innovations, able to influence form a position of knowledge and experience as a software engineer

  • Contributing multi-functionally, pairing with engineers at all levels to support their learning to co-develop great outcomes

  • Active contributor and participant to the cluster leadership team and accountability for indirect leadership of the organisation with peers

Play your part in our team succeeding

This cluster of products is responsible for the LEGO Group’s customer facing technology. These tools help our customers to plan and complete their business with us. It also delivers capability for our colleagues to manage customer relationships and marketing activity. We are building an ecosystem of interconnected services and experiences to offer a world class colleague and customer interaction experience.

Our current tech stack abstract: Among a broad field of technology, we primarily rely on the following - JavaScript (React / Node.js), GraphQL, Serverless, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, Kinesis etc.). We also use a number of MACH (Microservices, API, Cloud, Headless) SaaS platforms as well as services from the likes of SAP.

Do you have what it takes?

  • Being a technical champion, you have worked with many different technologies and are passionate about learning and staying on top of new technology insights

  • Communication, collaboration and coding are your superpowers because you love building amazing products and convincing your peers and partners of the right approach

  • Empowering and mentoring is important to you, and you love teaching your skills and approach to others

  • When you speak, people listen and trust your expert opinion. People look up to you and seek to become as skilled as you are. You inspire people to follow you, not by dictating or controlling but thanks to your skill in your craft and your positions as an internal (and maybe external) inspiring leader in your field

  • You have a strategic approach and know how to stay on strategy. You are skilled in organisational change, open to innovative approaches, patient with people and you have superb interpersonal skills and communication

  • You’re an excellent problem solver who is not fixed on technology but looks at how to craft the best solution. You love a technical challenge and filling in the dots to ensure that all requirements are understood and then delivered (without perfecting the plan before building it!)

Advanced English both written and verbal would be ideal as we are an internationally gathered team.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

"Bring your tech talent and people passion into play and become part of a big IT community and get the chance to spar with other specialists that share interest!"

#LI-JB1

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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. 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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

Other facts

Tech stack
JavaScript,React,Node.js,GraphQL,Serverless,AWS,Microservices,API,Cloud,Headless,SaaS,Technical Leadership,Problem Solving,Communication,Collaboration,Mentoring

About the LEGO Group

We are the LEGO Group, the company behind the world’s most loved LEGO® bricks. Our brand name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”.

We’ve been sparking imaginations and inspiring the builders of tomorrow since 1932. This is our mission and what motivates our colleagues around the world every day.

Today, we remain proudly family-owned with headquarters in Billund, Denmark. We have regional hubs in Boston, USA; London, UK; Shanghai, China; and Singapore, as well as 7 manufacturing facilities around the world.

These places are home to 31,000+ colleagues in everything from design and engineering to digital technology and marketing. Together we learn, imagine and build – creating play experiences that are sold in over 130 countries worldwide.

A purposeful and responsible global brand where creativity helps to inspire builders all around the world. Just imagine being part of that!

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Manufacturing

What you'll do

  • The Principal Engineer will influence and problem-solve to help product teams create a connected technology ecosystem and promote an API economy. They will also provide technical leadership and contribute to the technical roadmap across product teams.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does a Principal Engineer do at the LEGO Group?

As a Principal Engineer at the LEGO Group, you will: the Principal Engineer will influence and problem-solve to help product teams create a connected technology ecosystem and promote an API economy. They will also provide technical leadership and contribute to the technical roadmap across product teams..

Why join the LEGO Group as a Principal Engineer?

the LEGO Group is a leading Manufacturing company.

Is the Principal Engineer position at the LEGO Group remote?

The Principal Engineer position at the LEGO Group is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark and Billund, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

How do I apply for the Principal Engineer position at the LEGO Group?

You can apply for the Principal Engineer position at the LEGO Group directly through Clera. Click the "Apply Now" button above to start your application. Clera's AI-powered platform will help match your profile with this opportunity and guide you through the application process. You can also learn more about the LEGO Group on their website.