Lead Engineer – Graphics and Color

Job Description

Shape the tools behind LEGO® creativity

Join us in powering the creative engines behind LEGO® design. As Lead Engineer for Graphics & Color, you will help build and evolve the tools and pipelines that enable our graphic designers and 3D artists to bring decorations and visual elements to life - both physically and digitally. Your technical leadership will directly influence how ideas become iconic LEGO® experiences.

Core Responsibilities

• Design technical solutions together with the product team, collaborating on discovery tasks with product managers, design leads, and business stakeholders.
• Develop, operate, and maintain robust, scalable solutions, balancing feature set, security, quality, and deadlines.
• Continuously improve the health of the team's codebase and systems, ensuring transparency to its state across development to live environments.
• Explore and evaluate new technologies to enhance and evolve our solutions.
• Actively participate in and contribute to cross-organizational initiatives, sharing knowledge and building communities.
• Connect and collaborate across technical and non-technical roles, ensuring alignment of solutions to business objectives.

Play your part in our team succeeding

In Creator and AFOL Technology, we develop and operate applications that empower LEGO® design colleagues to innovate and create new elements and products.

As Lead Engineer for the Graphic & Color team, you will be responsible for the tools and pipelines supporting our graphic designers and 3D artists who create decorations and stickers. These assets are used on our physical LEGO® elements as well as in our digital value chain for model CAD, 3D rendering, game asset creation, and beyond.

Your leadership and engineering craftsmanship will directly impact the creative process and product quality.

Do you have what it takes?

• Very experienced in software engineering, with expertise in cloud-backed solutions (AWS preferred), software architecture paradigms, and development methodologies (TDD, BDD).
• Proven experience with both C# and Python in building production software with multiple collaborators.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks, with an understanding of web security.
• Understanding of Domain Driven Design and loosely coupled systems.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end feature development teams using modern agile methodologies.
• Effective communication skills for leading complex technical discussions and decision making processes within and across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in a leading role (technical lead or team lead), with a focus on mentoring and team development.
• Passion for producing high quality technical documentation and visual representations to document, guide and communicate product development.
• Experience with applying AI solutions on day to day tasks to increase efficiency.
• Working knowledge of the Qt Framework.
• Adobe Illustrator plugin authoring experience.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.

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.