About the role
Role Overview
Play Software builds technology enabled play; where LEGO play sets are combined with electronic hardware and software to build a Play experience. As part of the Play Experience team, you will be a central part of the Play Software organization as we build interactive experiences for kids, working across all technical teams, while always focusing on the experience of LEGO fans of all ages.
Responsibilities
- Translate strategic objectives into an achievable technical roadmap, identify and communicate the trade-off and risks, align the software delivery with stakeholders.
- Define architecture and vision, align with product and platform objectives.
- Lead the design and implementation of the engine capabilities, remain hands-on on the technical challenging problems and architecture areas.
- Provide technical direction, review critical designs and code, raise the team's engineering standards.
- Establish engineering strategies for performance improvement and resources usage within a constrained system.
- Drive the improvement of processes and workflows.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and building reusable platforms and components as the foundation for building scalable play experiences.
- Strong experience in technical leadership of software engineering teams.
- Demonstrated experience resolving complex architecture and performance challenges that affect a platform.
- Strong software development skills, fluent in C++/C.
- Experience with Domain Specific Languages (DSL).
- Proven ability to lead technical delivery across multiple components, manage architectural dependencies and resolve cross-team engineering issues.
- Strong experience in using task management software like Jira.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions and align engineers and stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience with connected toys, wearables, IoT or other hardware-software products (BLE, NFC/RFID, sensors, low-power devices).
- Experience with game engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot) and building designer-facing tools and data-driven content pipelines.
- Audio programming or interactive sound design experience.
- Experience designing play for children, including playtesting with kids and working within child safety and privacy regulations.
- A passion for LEGO play and a curiosity for inventing new forms of play.
Benefits and Perks
- Family Care Leave: Enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
- Insurances: All colleagues are covered by life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
- Wellbeing: Resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
- Colleague Discount: Generous colleague discount from day 1.
- Bonus: Rewarded through our bonus scheme when goals are reached and if eligible.
Workplace and Culture
- Workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in the advert.
- Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both, offers flexibility to work from home up to two days per week.
- Culture: 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.
- Equal Opportunity: The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (e.g., sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply.
- Child Safeguarding: 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.