Lead Engineer

Job Description

Just imagine turning a digital model into a life-size LEGO® Formula 1 car seen by fans around the world. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Lead Engineer, you'll shape the future tooling that helps create some of the most ambitious LEGO® models in existence. You'll work in Creator and AFOL Technology, building the systems that help designers visualize large-scale models in 3D, generate building instructions, estimate brick requirements, and create assets that bring concepts to life. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll help modernize a long-standing application landscape while defining the technical direction for the future. You'll balance architecture decisions with day-to-day development and help remove friction from the design-to-production process.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered 6+ years of software development experience, ideally including C++ applications.

• Built software architectures that support complex products and long-term evolution.

• Led software development teams through technically challenging initiatives.

• Managed delivery across complex environments while providing clarity and direction.

• Shipped applications used by internal and external users at scale.

• Defined backend capabilities that enabled business-critical applications and workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied AI-driven automation capabilities within software products or processes.

• Developed autonomous or workflow-based systems that improved efficiency.

• Created software supporting design, manufacturing, engineering, or other physical products.

• Delivered desktop or client applications across multiple devices and testing environments.

What you'll build

• Tooling that enables designers to create large-scale LEGO models faster and more effectively.

• 3D visualization capabilities that help teams understand, review, and refine models.

• Systems that suppor t s the big model production that helps showcase LEGO models to the millions of fans across the world .

• Building instruction tools that help manufacturing and model production teams deliver with quality.

• Technical foundations that reduce process loops and improve workflow efficiency.

• A future-ready architecture for a product ecosystem that has evolved over many years.

Within your first year, you'll help place meaningful new capabilities into the hands of designers, enabling faster iteration and stronger workflows. If you've worked in a role where software became something physical in the real world, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to combine technical depth with practical delivery and business impact.

Life on the team

You'll join Creator and AFOL Technology, a hybrid team of engineers, designers, and data specialists working across C++, data science, and backend development. We're shaping the future of the tooling behind creative experiences at the LEGO Group. Curiosity is important here. We're constantly exploring better ways of working, learning from one another, and building close partnerships with the people who use our products every day.

What success looks like

Success means helping the team unlock creativity through effective, frictionless tooling while establishing a clear technical direction for the years ahead. Over the next 12 to 18 months , you'll help drive a significant transformation of the tooling landscape and contribute to a multi-year modernization effort. You'll work closely with engineers, designers, product leadership, and specialist stakeholders to ensure technology genuinely supports the creative process from concept through production.

Leadership

• Decision making: Takes ownership of decisions made in their team by helping their teammates make clear decisions in alignment with organizational goals, backing decisions made, and taking responsibility for their success. Raises awareness for how biases impact decisions and ensures accountability is practiced within their team. Demonstrates these behaviors themselves.

• Facilitation: Understands the boundaries of the LEGO domain map and bridges the gaps by facilitating collaboration and open discussions on cross domain topics, ensures transparency and handover if problems are identified elsewhere in the domain map.

• Coaching & Mentoring: Mentors their teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability. Mentors' members of other teams as needed. Spars with competency leads regarding team/people skillset and opportunities for growth, improvement and training.

• Recognizing teamwork: Engages in sponsoring, recognizing, and providing feedback to other team members both internal and external to their own product team.

• Engineering culture: Acts as a key driver behind establishing team processes, engineering practices and habits in the product team.

• Feedback: Actively seeks and proactively provides feedback both laterally across teams and upwards to the Engineering Delivery lead and shares technical direction transparently.

• Effective communication: Sets clear team vision and roadmap in collaboration with the Product trio taking into account technical debt the team owns and need to reduce and communicates them clearly both to the team and upwards through the OKR process.

• Showcase work: Acts as the technical representative for the product by leading on user/customer collaboration throughout all stages of product lifecycle and nurturing a sharing culture in the team

• Documentation: Drives the engineering culture by continuously participating and contributing to cross organizational initiatives and strategy development by engaging in community discussions and documentations.

• Relationship building: Works to build and improve strong relationships with their teammates, senior engineering manager, their teams' relevant business stakeholders, and lead engineers across their domain. Leverages relationships to better plan for and position their team.

• Handling disagreements: Fosters a culture within their team where people are encouraged to share their opinions and contribute to discussions in a respectful manner, approach disagreement non-defensively and uses contradictory opinions as a basis for constructive, productive conversations. Is open to changing their perspective and plans based on others' input.

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.