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About the Role

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

Define and drive technical architecture of high-performance core engines and software platforms.
Lead the design and develop software components that enable the creation of engaging play experiences using physical capabilities.
Take technical ownership of the engine, establishing architectural foundations, guiding technical decisions, and ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and future readiness.
Combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership to enable engineers to deliver a cohesive system.
Translate strategic objectives into an achievable technical roadmap, identify and communicate trade-offs and risks, and align software delivery with stakeholders.
Define architecture and vision, aligning with product and platform objectives.
Lead the design and implementation of engine capabilities, remaining hands-on with technical challenges and architecture areas.
Provide technical direction, review critical designs and code, and raise the team's engineering standards.
Establish engineering strategies for performance improvement and resource 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.
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.

Skills

C++
C
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
Jira
BLE
NFC/RFID
Sensors
Low-power devices
Unity
Unreal
Godot
Audio programming
Interactive sound design

Location

Office, store or factory specified in this advert

Work Type

Hybrid Working
Best of Both

Experience Level

Lead

Benefits

Family Care Leave
Life and disability insurance
Resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing
Opportunities to build community and inspire creativity
Generous colleague discount
Bonus scheme

About the Company

Play Software builds technology enabled play; where LEGO play sets are combined with electronic hardware and software to build a Play experience.
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 fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe.

Equal Opportunity

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.
Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.