SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Why we will love you

We are looking for engineers who have a passion for technology and want to contribute to innovation of the future IKEA.

You should have:

Formal qualifications in computer science or any engineering equivalent

Minimum 7 years of experience as software engineer with similar level of experience in the assigned tech stack

Minimum 5 years of experience of working in agile/iterative software development teams with a DevOps working set-up 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

Building, deploying cloud-based applications and services using Node.js, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and PubSub Contributing needs strong understanding of SOLID principles, coding standards, and design patterns.

We use Infrastructure as code tools, particularly Terraform, for provisioning and managing GCP resources

SQL/NoSql stores are used to create data hubs that will promote data democratization across Ingka, particularly BigQuery

Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and experience with GitHub Actions for automating build, test, and deployment processes

We try to use Trunk-Based development principles and work in agile software development environments (using Jira) Containerization technologies like Docker are used

For front-End we use ReactJS among others for homegrown solution (optional)

A day in your life with us

As a Software Engineer you will be part of 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.

Lead and coach engineers, and promote modern software engineering principles, proper tools and increase of automation to enable the specified business outcomes and create a strong software ecosystem for IKEAs digital products and business.

You will:

Be responsible for 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

Synchronize software design and architecture by aligning with stakeholders in order to ensure expected outcomes

Lead and promote good software engineering practices within an agile/iterative development approach in order to improve time to market and fulfill business needs

Onboard, coach and mentor engineers in order to secure transfer of competence and a high performing team

Design and educate other engineers in ways of working, encouraging good practices to meet consumer expectations on Product or Service delivery

Take responsibility for cooperation and alignment with key stakeholders within Ingka and Inter-IKEA Systems with interdependencies towards Group Digital to develop

Product/Service design and technical roadmaps

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

Identify, continuously explore and evaluate new technologies and benchmark against industry standards, in order to boost innovation and productivity for optimization/modifications to the current design

Produce all required design specifications and ensure that Products or Services are aligned, by leading team members and working closely together cross-functions to ensure end-to-end business delivery

Oversee the various Products or Services being developed, within the area, including code-reviews to ensure technical feasibility and that solutions are optimized for speed, scalability and reusability

Drive the development of different engineering patterns for different types of Products and Services by working across initiatives within Ingka Group

Proactively manage relevant organizational processes, to drive an intended outcome

Together as a Team

In People Planning you will be part of a mature team that operate and continuously develop and improve our solutions used in 20+ countries as well as implement solutions for new countries. A rollout project is ongoing to phase in new solutions to our countries; this 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.

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" For this role we have one open position and it's placed in Helsingborg. Welcome with your application! If you have any question regarding the position, please do not hesitate to contact hiring manager: Pernilla Hjersing at pernilla.hjersing@ingka.ikea.com Please note that we will be interviewing continuously. We look forward to hearing from you