{"id":3398985,"url":"https://alion.io/job/lego-group-lead-software-engineer-game-play-engine","title":"Lead Software Engineer (Game Play / Engine)","company":{"id":183152,"name":"LEGO Group","domain":"lego.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/lego","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":84,"open_postings":26,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.846,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":15,"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"}},"role":"Games","role_family":"Games","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Billund, Denmark","London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["DK","GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":81000,"max_usd":204000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":41},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false},{"name":"Godot","optional":true},{"name":"Unity","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-28T13:39:35Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-30T19:04:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Job Description\nExpert in building game play features and developing engine tech?\nThen get your application ready, we're looking for you!\nPlay Software builds technology enabled play; where LEGO play sets are combined with electronic hardware and software to build a Play experience.\nAs 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.\nResponsibilities\nWe are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to define and drive technical architecture of a high-performance core engines and software platforms. You will lead the design and develop software components that enables the teams to create engaging play experiences using physical capabilities such as motion, sound and colour detection. Through robust and reusable software, you will help bring our tech-enabled toys to life.\nYou will take technical ownership of the engine, establishing its architectural foundations, guiding major technical decisions and ensuring that the platform remains reliable, scalable and fit for future needs. You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, enabling engineers to deliver a cohesive system.\nTranslate strategic objectives into an achievable technical roadmap, identify and communicate the trade-off and risks, align the software delivery with stakeholders. \nDefine architecture and vision, align with product and platform objectives. \nLead the design and implementation of the engine capabilities, remain hands-on on the technical challenging problems and architecture areas. \nProvide technical direction, review critical designs and code, raise the team's engineering standards. \nEstablish engineering strategies for performance improvement and resources usage within a constrained system. \nDrive the improvement of processes and workflows. \nRequirements\nProven experience leading and building reusable platforms and components as the foundation for building scalable play experiences. \nStrong experience in technical leadership of software engineering teams. \nDemonstrated experience resolving complex architecture and performance challenges that affect a platform \nStrong software development skills, fluent in C++/C. \nExperience with Domain Specific Languages (DSL). \nProven ability to lead technical delivery across multiple components, manage architectural dependencies and resolve cross-team engineering issues. \nStrong experience in using task management software like Jira. \nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions and align engineers and stakeholders. \nNice to have:\nExperience with connected toys, wearables, IoT or other hardware-software products (BLE, NFC/RFID, sensors, low-power devices). \nExperience with game engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot) and building designer-facing tools and data-driven content pipelines. \nAudio programming or interactive sound design experience. \nExperience designing play for children, including playtesting with kids and working within child safety and privacy regulations. \nA passion for LEGO play and a curiosity for inventing new forms of play. \nApplications 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.\nWhat’s in it for you?\nHere is what you can expect:\nFamily Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.\nInsurances - All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.\nWellbeing - 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.\nColleague Discount - We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.\nBonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.\nYour workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.\nHybrid 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.\nLearn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here \nChildren 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.\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nThank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.\nJust imagine building your dream career.\nThen make it real.\nJoin the LEGO® team today.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5582,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Denmark","iso":"DK","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-28T13:39:35Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":15,"reasons":["conf:7","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/lego-group-lead-software-engineer-game-play-engine","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/lego-group-lead-software-engineer-game-play-engine.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T00:03:40Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":46,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":183152},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=183152"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flego-group-lead-software-engineer-game-play-engine"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flego-group-lead-software-engineer-game-play-engine"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flego-group-lead-software-engineer-game-play-engine"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/lego-group-lead-software-engineer-game-play-engine\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flego-group-lead-software-engineer-game-play-engine"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3398985}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"lego.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3398985},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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