Lead Software Engineer (Game Play / Engine)

As Lead Software Engineer in the Play Experience team, you define and drive the architecture of high-performance core engines and platforms for playable, tech-enabled LEGO experiences. You own architectural foundations, guide major technical decisions, and ensure a scalable, reliable engine while mentoring engineers. You translate strategic objectives into a realizable technical roadmap and align delivery with stakeholders. This role blends hands-on problem solving with technical leadership to bring physical and digital play to life.

• Family Care Leave
• life and disability insurance
• wellbeing resources
• colleague discount
• bonus scheme
• hybrid working

• Define and drive architectural foundations of core engines and software platforms
• Lead design and implementation of engine capabilities, remaining hands-on on challenging problems
• Provide technical direction, review designs and code, raise engineering standards
• Establish performance and resource usage strategies within a constrained system
• Drive processes and workflows improvements across teams
• Translate objectives into an achievable technical roadmap and align with stakeholders
• Manage architectural dependencies and cross-team engineering issues
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and future-fit engineering decisions

• Proven experience leading and building reusable platforms for scalable play experiences
• Strong technical leadership of software engineering teams
• Experience solving complex architecture and performance challenges
• Fluent in C++/C
• Experience with Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
• Proven ability to lead technical delivery across multiple components and resolve cross-team issues
• Strong experience with Jira for task management
• Excellent communication to align engineers and stakeholders

• strong communication
• stakeholder alignment
• cross-functional collaboration
• C++/C
• Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
• engine architecture and performance optimization