Software Engineer Fullstack/Frontend

WHY WE LOVE YOU

At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understnd our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people!

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN IKEA?

We are looking for a passionate engineer who is excited about technology and innovative ways of working and has a keen interest in solving business problems with technology and wants to be a part of shaping the future of IKEA!

You have a proven ability to develop high-quality code, using and demonstrating relevant best practices. You have a curious nature and actively acquire new knowledge, skills, champion new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance. Doing so will enable you to change direction based on new ideas, approaches and strategies. You will be empowered to work in an agile environment, applying continuous improvements in the software engineering function. By encouraging simplicity, efficiency, ownership, and accountability, you can easily collaborate with others to achieve our common goals.

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful as a Front-End Engineer, you not only have a good understanding of Human Computer Interaction design, keeping up with current best practices in your area of expertise. You have about 2-3 years of experience leading tasks or teams to ensure well-architected and scalable solutions. Particularly user facing solutions, composable UIs, federated front-end In addition, you have demonstrable experience working in an Agile and DevOps working set-up.

The IKEA culture and values are very much a part of our business and day to day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA it’s important for us that you share our values! You can read more regarding our values and life at IKEA on our website https://about.ikea.com/

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Front End Engineer, your main responsibilities will include:

- understanding and translating business needs into software requirements

- work with Product Owner/Specialist/UX to collaborate on requirements refinement and backlog prioritization

- prototyping, developing, testing, deploying, fixing, maintaining and continuously evolving the code

- extensive experience with Web Apps, SPA, React/VUE/Angular, Micro-frontends, CI/CD

- work on the back-end requirements when needed

- work closely with user/system reported incidents and tickets

- applying and adhering to good practice in software engineering practices (e.g. DRY principles, security by design, continuous integration, automated tests, pair programming, code reviews) within an agile/iterative development approach

- Continuously identify, highlight and address technical debt

- recognizing when to provide support and guidance to other engineers within the team, encouraging good practices on both the technical and non-technical aspects of working as an empowered team

- contributing to the continuous development of standards against which software development should take place, as well as exploring and introducing new technologies to boost innovation and development productivity

- taking a lead on working closely with other software engineers and cross functions to produce required design specifications and ensuring that digital solutions work together to fulfil business needs

ABOUT THIS WORK AREA

At Group Digital, we set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fast-moving environment. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services through the use of new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace. At the same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend the technical, people and business skills needed to ensure continuous development and growth of our digital capability.

Within the Profiles Area we are responsible for digital tools that acts as support for the end customer of ikea-account webpage but also internally consumable APIs for other teams. We have embarked on a journey to not only modernize our tech stack to cloud native (GCP) but also to deliver the best possible experience for the IKEA customer when logging in.

QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.

From: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified” by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014”

If you have any questions about the position, please reach out to hiring manager Joakim Månsson at [email protected]

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to Shivani Vudugu at [email protected]

Warmly welcome with your application!