Lead Software Engineer

LEGO is hiring a Lead Software Engineer in Copenhagen, Denmark. Level rates it ; you can apply on LEGO.

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Job Description

Just imagine shaping the technology landscape that helps manufacture LEGO® bricks. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Lead Engineer, you'll shape architecture across manufacturing technology and help product teams move from legacy systems towards modern, decoupled solutions. You'll set technical direction across 1–2 manufacturing product teams, guiding design choices that support automation, scalability and operational efficiency.

Required Qualifications

Developed software solutions supporting manufacturing processes
Designed decoupled architectures for manufacturing systems to improve integration and delivery
Led the technical design and implementation of complex solutions across 1–2 product teams
Guided product teams and Engineers on architecture direction and technical standards

Preferred Qualifications

Used Kubernetes to support software solutions
Developed software solutions using C#

What you'll build

Shape future manufacturing technology landscapes that support automation, scalability and operational efficiency
Replace legacy manufacturing systems with modern, decoupled technologies
Set architecture direction across 1–2 manufacturing product teams
Guide the design and implementation of complex manufacturing solutions
Help product teams make technology choices and establish engineering standards that support future development

If you've worked in a role where you've designed and implemented complex solutions while setting technical direction, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is turning thoughtful architecture choices into practical technology that works for manufacturing teams and supports how their products evolve.

Life on the team

You'll join manufacturing technology at the LEGO Group, working alongside product teams and Lead Engineers who are shaping the technology behind manufacturing. You'll bring curiosity and collaboration to technical conversations, communicating clearly as you help colleagues work through complex choices. You'll have the opportunity to influence solutions across teams while staying close to the technology and the people building it.

What success looks like

In your first year, you'll help teams make confident architecture decisions and create a clearer technical direction for manufacturing technology. As the technology landscape develops over the next 12–18 months, you'll help make it easier for product teams to build, integrate and evolve their solutions. Working closely with manufacturing product teams and Lead Engineers, you'll connect architectural direction with practical implementation and help establish a foundation that can support the manufacturing technology landscape ahead.

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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.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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.

How we rate this

Lead Software Engineer at LEGO rates 26 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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