Senior Engineer - Backend

• Location Shanghai, China

• Job ID 0000017166

• Category IT, Telecom & Internet

Job Description

The Sr. Backend Engineer is part of the Software Engineer family. The Software Engineer builds software functionality and participates actively in the product team by taking on development responsibilities across the solution. The Software Engineer can contribute across several technical activities, including development-heavy and low-code activities, such as data engineering, software development, system/product configuration and DevOps. They have a real passion for development and a demonstrated appetite for continual learning, typically manifest in their community contributions (e.g., open source work, publishing / speaking on technical ideas).

Are you a passionate and experience Backend Engineer who wants to join the incredible Digital Technology Team in a fast growing market?

Working in the LEGO Group is a hugely remarkable experience and a superb opportunity to groundbreaking digital technology in a diverse and great team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Build and configure end-to-end applications through close collaboration with other product team members.

• Develop products that implement business logic, modern design patterns and architectural principles.

• Engineer products that follow highest coding standards, e.g. documentation and efficiency.

• Ensure product robustness and reliability by writing and executing unit and integration tests.

• Improve operational efficiency by developing automation tools for daily tasks.

• Build efficient and optimal solutions by challenging ideas/opinions.

• Suggest and define future stories to support the product owner.

Do you have what it takes?

• Computer Science/Software Engineering or related university education background with Bachelor above degree.

• 5+ years experience in software development and architecture.

• 3+ years experience and deep knowledge on programming with Java and JavaScript, have other language experience would be a plus.

• Familiar with Spring Framework (Spring Boot/Spring MVC/etc).

• Knowledge in relational database (MySQL/PostgreSQL/etc), non-SQL database (Mongo/AWS DynamoDB/etc) and message queue (Kafka/RabbitMQ/AWS SQS/etc).

• Experience with modern front-end framework (React preferred).

• Experience in cloud and the corresponding services and architecture design patterns.

• Experience in design patterns, code refactoring and test-driven development.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and git-based source control.

• Experience with observability tools like ELK/Grafana/Instana/etc.

• Strong interpersonal skills with proficient in communicating tech concepts and align organization on decisions with partners of all levels of expertise.

• Previous experience in retail/e-commerce industry would be plus.

• Advanced in Chinese and English.

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

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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.

Research shows that women and people from different minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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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Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.