Company Overview
LEGO Digital Play will bring the LEGO brand into digital entertainment in new, innovative, and wholly-owned ways. Our mission is to ensure the LEGO Brand remains as powerfully a part of children’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been. We aim to reach every kid on the planet, their parents, and adult fans of LEGO—and provide them with meaningful, magical, and playful new experiences.
We are at the earliest phases of this new company, offering a unique opportunity to build a new entity for the world's most beloved and trusted brand. Our culture is open, collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and creatively vibrant.
LEGO Digital Play is building a proprietary, brand-aligned development platform that will bring digital LEGO to life and deliver a trusted foundation for internal and external developers to build on.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Lead Engineer, Developer Platform, to serve as the hands-on technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and operating the core engineering capabilities that make this platform real, including SDKs, APIs, validation and policy services, asset and file standards, engine integrations, and developer tooling.
Reporting to the Head of Developer Platform, you will work closely with product partners and studios to translate platform strategy into robust, scalable, and reusable services that help teams build high-quality, interoperable, and safe LEGO digital experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the Head of Developer Platform, product, and studio teams to understand developer and studio needs and correlate them to the broader roadmap.
- Lead the technical architecture and hands-on implementation of the Developer Platform across SDKs, APIs, validation services, developer tooling, and reference game engine integrations.
- Design, build, and operate the core platform services that support asset libraries, rules and validation, certification workflows, and other reusable developer capabilities.