Lead Engineer

Job Description

Just imagine helping transform a platform built across four generations of technology into a modern cloud-native ecosystem while millions of LEGO fans continue to use it every day. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Lead Engineer - BrickLink, you'll shape the technical direction of BrickLink within the LEGO Group while guiding a major modernization journey. You'll combine hands‑on engineering leadership with strategic thinking to help evolve a live marketplace platform from legacy ASP/VBScript and Java technologies toward a modern architecture built on C#, React, and AWS. Working closely with engineers, product partners, and business stakeholders, you'll balance feature delivery with long‑term architectural improvements while establishing the engineering practices that will support BrickLink's future growth.

Please note: Relocation support is not available for this role.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered production systems using modern C# and .NET technologies in a technical leadership, staff engineering, or architecture role
• Designed AWS-based solutions using services such as ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, RDS, or DynamoDB
• Built scalable architectures using service-oriented and event-driven patterns with well-defined API contracts
• Led engineering teams through architectural decisions, code review standards, quality practices, and delivery improvements
• Managed technical strategy in partnership with product, business, and engineering stakeholders
• Directed legacy-to-modern migration initiatives with measurable technology or business outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

• Implemented event-driven architectures and message queuing solutions in production environments
• Applied continuous delivery, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps practices, or domain-driven design approaches
• Contributed to engineering strategy across multiple teams or communities of practice
• Worked with accessibility standards and digital compliance requirements such as GDPR or DSA

What you'll build

• Define and deliver a clear technical vision and roadmap for BrickLink's modernization journey
• Guide the migration from legacy ASP/VBScript and Java technologies to a modern C#, React, and AWS ecosystem
• Establish architectural standards for APIs, data platforms, observability, quality controls, and delivery practices
• Strengthen engineering capability through mentorship and technical leadership
• Deliver measurable improvements in reliability, deployment efficiency, delivery speed, and cloud adoption
• Build trusted partnerships with Product and cross-functional teams to align technical strategy with business outcomes

If you've worked in a role where you led modernization efforts, designed cloud-native architectures, and translated technical vision into delivered outcomes, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to create clarity, make sound technical decisions, and help teams deliver meaningful results.

Life on the team

You'll join BrickLink within Creator and AFOL Technology. Our mission is to empower Expert Creators to unlock limitless LEGO creativity through a thriving global community. We're one platform with six teams working towards the same goal, bringing together a wide range of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. Our team enjoys spending time together in person and follows a hybrid rhythm that supports collaboration, open communication, mentorship, shared ownership, and continuous learning.

What success looks like

Success means helping the team navigate the challenges of modernizing a platform that has evolved over more than 25 years while continuing to deliver value for creators, buyers, and sellers. Over the next 12 to 15 months, you'll play a central role in BrickLink's re-platforming journey as teams move toward a service-oriented architecture with clearly defined domain boundaries, followed by an ambitious roadmap ahead. You'll work closely with product trios across BrickLink, engineering peers, leadership, and digital partners across the wider ecosystem to ensure technical decisions create lasting impact across the platform.

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What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can 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.
• Wellbeing - 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.
• Colleague Discount - We know you'll love to