Senior Staff Engineer

Job Description
Are you a curious Senior Staff Engineer who wants to build exciting play experiences and become part of a highly collaborative Product team?

Then come and join our Creative Play Lab Engineering teams at the LEGO Group!

Core Responsibilities

• Design and build the core platform and related features to the game engine.
• Design and build the compiler used to run the experience on hardware built by The LEGO Group.
• Build and improve the homemade programming language used to describe the play experience.
• Collaborate with other teams to improve performance and add new features.
• Ensure the quality and the robustness of the solution through coding best practices and architecture design.
• Work within our AGILE environment, offering constructive feedback to processes and development plans.

Play your part in our team succeeding
Play Engineering drives technology enabled play; where LEGO play sets are combined with electronic hardware and software to build a larger-than-life experience. This role sits within the Play Core & Experience part of Play Engineering where we develop platforms and solutions to provide play experiences running on multiple types of hardware.

As part of the Play Core & Experience teams, you will be a central part of the Play Engineering organisation as we drive to bring advanced technology in-house, working across all technical teams, while always focusing on the experience of LEGO fans of all ages. By joining Play Core & Experience, you will take a role as a Tech Lead and have the chance to be on the cutting edge of the future for LEGO.

Do you have what it takes?

• Skilled in the following programming languages: C, C#, Python.
• Experience building compilers and optimizing code efficiently.
• Experience designing and building scalable software platforms.
• Demonstrable ability to work on engineering projects within a team
• Be able to lead the team on technical decisions in a collaborative way
• Self organizer.
• Growth mindset.

Nice to have:

• Experience with embedded system.
• Experience using GitHub for code management.
• Experience using Jira for task management.

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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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000021119
• Category
  IT, Telecom & Internet