Senior Backend Engineer - Greenfield Packing Automation

<p><b>Job Description</b></p><p>This is a rare opportunity to join a new greenfield team at the heart of our Digital organization, helping shape how IT technology transforms manufacturing and logistics at the LEGO Group. You’ll work on initiatives that drive optimization, scalability, reliability, and usability for our factories worldwide.</p><p></p><p><b>Core Responsibilities</b></p><ul><li>Design, build, and operate robust, secure, and scalable solutions that meet the LEGO Group’s high engineering standards.</li><li>Champion and nurture a culture of craftsmanship, quality, and continuous improvement.</li><li>Safeguard the reliability and performance of our products, with attention to <b>DevSecOps and production-readiness</b>.</li><li>Collaborate closely with teams across the business, including our Shanghai team, to ensure seamless integration with existing systems.</li><li>Help define the team’s vision, backlog, and ways of working, taking ownership of the greenfield initiative.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Play your part in our team succeeding</b></p><p>Our Platform Technology department delivers the solutions and technologies that power engineering, manufacturing, and logistics across the LEGO Group.<br/>As part of this team, you’ll be creating innovative digital solutions for our state-of-the-art factories, directly impacting how we produce LEGO <span>sets</span> worldwide.<br/>We value strong engineering practices and a passion for technology. We work in an agile environment, always seeking smarter ways to collaborate and deliver.<br/>This is your chance to <b>shape the future of a greenfield team</b>, influence technology choices, and bring your ideas to life.</p><p></p><p><b>Do you have what it takes?</b></p><ul><li><span>Strong programming expertise in <b>modern .NET (C#)</b>.</span></li><li>Hands-on experience with relational databases and event-driven architectures (e.g., RabbitMQ).</li><li><span>Curious to work with new technologies</span></li><li><span>A <b>quality-first mindset</b> with a track record of applying best practices.</span></li><li><span>Solid grasp of <b>agile development practices</b>.</span></li><li>Comfortable operating in large, complex enterprise environments.</li><li>Ambitious and proactive — able to <b>take responsibility, drive initiatives, and influence the product roadmap</b>.</li><li>A strong team player and <span>role model</span>, collaborative and goal-oriented.</li><li>Curious, open-minded, and passionate about building a positive engineering culture (and yes, learning through play).</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Bonus skills</b></p><ul><li><span>CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, and test automation.</span></li><li><span>Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.</span></li><li><span>Experience with a <b>front-end stack</b> (preferably React using Typescript).</span></li><li>Experience with factory automation, OT systems, or industrial IoT.</li><li>Messaging technologies like MQTT, SparkplugB, or RabbitMQ.</li><li><span>Experience with</span> infrastructure as code in cloud environments.</li><li>Exposure to Unified Namespace (UNS) architectures.</li><li>Familiarity with PLCs and OT systems.</li><li>Prior experience in greenfield or high-tech manufacturing environments.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p>Leadership:<br/>• Decision making: Strives to be objective and reflects on their own biases when making decisions. Holds themselves accountable for decision and outcomes.<br/>• Facilitation: Facilitates open discussions during team events and drives towards tangible outcomes and objectives within a product team.<br/>• Coaching and mentoring: Mentors their teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability.<br/>• Recognizing teamwork: Engages in sponsoring, recognizing, and providing feedback to other team members.<br/>• Engineering culture: Leads the development of a no blame and inclusive engineering culture with safe space for employees to participate and contribute, while actively encouraging experimentation and prototyping.<br/><br/>Communication:<br/>• Feedback: Actively seeks and proactively provides feedback both laterally across teams and upwards to engineering leads and shares technical direction transparently.<br/>• Effective communication: Provides technical context and direction for less experienced engineers. Translates technical constraints / trade-offs to people within non-technical roles.<br/>• Showcase work: Acts as technical guide in multiple areas and champions the achievements of the team on a regular basis and encourages engagement within the team.<br/>• Documentation: Continuously monitors and improves the engineering documentation within the team.<br/>• Relationship building: Works to build strong relationships with their teammates, lead, engineers, senior engineering manager, product manager