The LEGO Group is looking for a Senior JavaScript Engineer to work on the LEGO.com technology platform as part of our Shopper Technology team based in London.

Our engineers work in interdisciplinary squads each arranged around clear product goals with responsibility for delivery of their own product roadmaps. You’ll spend your time working in one of our new squads building new greenfield applications (Next.js + GraphQL front end with Node.js microservices backend).

This is a permanent role is based in our London Hub near Chancery Lane station. Our colleagues are all currently still working from home and when the Hub re-opens fully, we will have a hybrid model allowing a split of working from the Hub where appropriate but also working from home for a number of days per week.

Core Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Owners, UX designers and other Application Engineers to deliver both new functionality and iterative improvements to LEGO.com backend services.

• Build efficient and reusable applications and services using JavaScript – React / Node.js / GraphQL / Lambda / AWS serverless stack)

• Provide technical guidance/informal coaching to other engineers to enable their professional development

• Lead code reviews with other engineers

• Identify and resolve scalability and performance issues

Play your part in our team succeeding

Working closely with product owners, architects and engineering managers, our Application Engineers are a vital part of the LEGO.com engineering team. We have implemented a modern front-end stack based around Next.js, React and GraphQL with a cloud-native AWS serverless back-end and we use the platform to design, build and operate LEGO.com.

Do you have what it takes?

• Expert knowledge of JavaScript, APIs and Markup

• Expert knowledge of CSS with a strong focus on accessibility and cross-browser compatibility – experience with CSS-in-JS is strongly preferred

• Experience with GraphQL server and client functionality

• Expert working knowledge of modern JavaScript-focused front-end frameworks and technologies – Node.js, Next.js framework, React and associated libraries and tooling including GraphQL (Apollo), Webpack, Babel and Jest

• Experience working with microservices is preferred - our event-based services layer utilises Node.js and the Serverless Framework and is built mainly on the AWS Serverless stack – Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, Kinesis and DynamoDB

• Experience of working with optimizing front end performance for mobile devices

• Experience of working with modern CI/CD and engineering tooling is a bonus – we leverage Amazon Web Services, CircleCI, GitHub Actions and Terraform extensively

• Must be attentive to detail, flexible and able to work concurrently on multiple projects

• Ability to troubleshoot, research, and work through complex problems

Join the global LEGO® team

What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to 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.

Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based

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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.

Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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.

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