the LEGO Group
Job Description
Developer Relations sits within the Developer Experience and Cloud Foundation (DX & CF) area and operates as a high-leverage, boundary-spanning function across the LEGO Group. The team collaborates daily with software engineers, platform teams, security, compliance, and leadership to ensure that developer practices, tooling, and policies are aligned with business objectives and technical realities.
By operating at the intersection of technology, culture, and organizational systems, the Senior Engineer in Developer Relations helps scale modern software practices, rebuild trust between developers and leadership, and ensure that experimentation and play translate into real business impact.
Core Responsibilities
Come lead and co-own our developer enablement programs, identifying gaps in developer experience and enabling teams through high-leverage, experimental interventions. Act as a senior technical boundary-spanner, aligning software developers, leadership, and business units by translating between technical realities and organizational objectives.
Build, run, and evaluate experiments at the groundbreaking of software development practices, including emergent toolchains, platform practices, and agentic AI.
Benchmark developer enablement initiatives against industry frameworks such as DORA and DX Core 4, using data to guide maturity and prioritization.
Play a central role in crafting and delivering the LEGO Group’s internal developer conference for 1,200+ developers, with a solid focus on content quality, relevance, and impact.
Serve as a trusted advocate for developers by gathering feedback, identifying systemic friction, and influencing cultural, procedural, and policy-level decisions.
Play your part in our team succeeding
At The LEGO Group, our Developer Relations team, also recognized as developer advocacy or evangelism, is anchored in encouraging robust connections with software developers and the overarching developer community.
Our mission is to empower developers with the vital resources, tools, and mentorship they need to harness the full potential of our products, technologies, or platforms. This translates into a multitude of responsibilities, ranging from technical advocacy. Where we nurture the merits and intricacies of our technological offerings, to content creation, ensuring developers have access to top-tier, informative materials.
We also pride ourselves on our community building, establishing a vibrant ecosystem of developers, and forging strategic partnerships that drive mutual growth. Within this vibrant nexus, the Communication Strategist role emerges as a beacon, magnifying our engagements, orchestrating communications. Ensuring that the developer’s voice resonates deeply throughout the organization, reinforcing trust, dedication, and long-term growth.
This position sits in our LEGO Hub in Løvstræde, Copenhagen, soon moving to Postbyen, offering an exciting, inspiring, and flexible work environment – “and a little fun play as well”
Do you have what it takes?
The preferred candidate has senior-level software engineering experience, with a solid grasp of modern development practices and delivery pipelines. Demonstrated ability to compose and lead developer enablement or platform-adjacent initiatives with organization-wide impact. Strong systems thinking, with the ability to diagnose socio-technical problems beyond tools alone.
Experience in bridging communication between technical teams and non-technical collaborators, including leadership.
Familiarity with developer efficiency and maturity frameworks (e.g., DORA, DX Core, or similar).
Comfort operating in ambiguity and experimenting with new practices, tools, and ways of working.
Also, effective communication and teamwork abilities, with the capacity to work well and Agile in a team environment. Together with strong mentorship and experience supporting the growth of junior engineers or students.
To succeed in this role, you preferably have competence within the following
Education in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Experience working in internal Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, or similar boundary-spanning roles.
Hands-on experience with generative or agentic AI systems in the software development lifecycle.
Experience crafting or curating technical conference content or large internal knowledge-sharing events.
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern DevOps practices.
Advanced English at a professional level both written and verbally are needed since we are an international gathered team.
Please note If you require any reasonable accommodation or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.
This position is in Manager Specialist Skyline. Relocation support is not offered.
Applications 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.
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 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 and if eligible, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
Workplace – When you join the team you’ll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
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 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.
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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