Software Engineer

Why we will love you

We are looking to hire passionate engineers, excited about technology and innovative ways of working to shape the future of IKEA. You have a passion for technology, you welcome change and you love to learn.

The ideal candidate should have-

• Formal qualifications in computer science, software engineering, or any equivalent engineering
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience as software engineer with similar level of experience in the specific tech stack for the area
• Minimum 2 years experience of working in agile/iterative software development teams with a DevOps working setup and with an emphasis on self-organization and delivery to agreed commitments
• Demonstrable experience with cloud computing environments
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Preferred: Knowledge of IKEA Brand, culture, values and way of working

Our tech stack consists of (but not limited to):

• Our mindset for design and process includes ETL, API 1st mindset, REST API design and event based architecture. Onprem and Cloud, primarily based on
• Google Cloud Platform as well as OpenShift and Azure.
• SQL/NoSql stores, Dataflow and PubSub are used to create data hubs that will promote data democratization across Ingka. Among others, PostgresSQL is used as database.
• Java, JavaScript/Node.js and Python is used as backend/APIs/MicroServices for homegrown solutions.
• For front end we use ReactJS among others for homegrown solutions and on top applications for bought solutions such as Dell Boomi.
• We use Terraform and Cloud Build to create fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Work is planned, tracked and documented using primarily Jira/Confluence and our code is versioned in GIT

A day in your life with us

As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the transformation of modernizing the digital landscape by designing, developing and delivering high-quality software and engineering in order to support consumers across Ingka and Inter-IKEA Systems to be more efficient and reach the many people.

You will be:

• Responsible to develop, run and maintain high-quality code of the assigned Product or Service using the right toolsets required in order to meet consumer expectations on the delivery

• Develop high-quality software design and architecture in accordance with good practices and agreed standards, such as Ingka Software Security Directives, to ensure delivery according to requirements and compliance

• Work in agile teams across areas, contributing to the development and maintenance of Products and Services

• Apply and promote good software engineering practices, including continuous integration and delivery, within an agile/iterative development approach in order to improve time to market and fulfill business needs

• Drive change activities in different environments in order to secure functionality and availability

• Deliver tests, performance analysis, configuration management and creation of functional/feature specifications to improve the Product/Service delivery

• Continuously explore and evaluate new technologies in order to boost innovation and productivity for optimization/modifications to the current design and development productivity

• Provide support and guidance as needed to consumers and other engineers encouraging good practices

• Develop different engineering patterns for different types of Products and Services by working across initiatives within Ingka Group developing, running, monitoring and supporting software for the assigned Product or Service using the right toolsets required and applying Ingka Software Security Directives, in order to deliver according to requirements and compliance

Together as a Team

In People Planning you will be part of a team that operates continuously develops our solutions used in 20+ countries as well as implement solutions for new countries. With several solutions; it requires the team to develop country-specific APIs to our library in order to fulfill our decoupled architecture, thus we safeguard the standard and parameterization for the new landscape.