Senior Software Engineer

WHO YOU ARE
HEJ! (Swedish for Hi)
We are looking for a strong Senior Software Engineer(Backend) to join our Marketing Audience Team. For this role, it’s important that you are passionate about technology, product, people and business. We want to see that you enjoy using technology to solve problems, not merely just to implement features. You like to have end-to-end responsibility. We are looking for missionaries, not mercenaries. We want to find engineers who are outcome focused and push themselves and the team to a higher level.
From a technology perspective, we expect that you have the ability to develop high quality code and have high quality engineering standards. We want you to have a curious nature and actively acquire new knowledge, skills, champion new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance. We want you to learn continuously and push the team to reach our common goals.
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 www.ikea.com.
Why we will 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 understand ourcustomers, 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!
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
As Senior Software Engineer(Backend), your main responsibilities will include:
· Leading the development of a new team in Marketing Audience, focused on customer delight
· Stakeholder management and continuous collaboration with related teams. This consists of API integrations from other teams, and helping other teams implement our platform’s API’s. This will be an intense collaboration which we expect you to lead
· Setting up the solution and data architecture for this new product from scratch, including data pipelines, DevOps practices and native cloud components
· Being responsible for the development of high quality (software) code which has been tested and is ready to be shipped
· Strong data analytical skills as a part of the team working on the audience creation
· Logging, alerting, tracing in the cloud
· Security concepts especially around the cloud
· Working in agile teams in across the capability areas, contributing to the development and maintenance of products and solutions
· Applying and adhere to good practice software engineering practices (e.g. DRY principles, TDD and BDD, continuous integration, automated tests, pair programming, code reviews) within an agile/iterative development approach
· Providing support and guidance as needed to other developers within the development team encouraging good practices
· Contributing to the continuous development of standards against which software development should take place as well as exploring and bring in new technologies to boost innovation and development productivity
· Working closely together with other software engineers and cross functions to meet design requirements and ensure that digital solutions work together and fulfill business needs
YOUR SKILLSET
· We first look at your values and your abilities. When the values and abilities match with our expectations for this position, we will look at your skillset.
· As Senior Software Engineer you must have the below skillsets:
· Back End development, we expect you to be tech agnostic. You should feel comfortable working with a variety of technologies, preferably NodeJS / Python
· API developer – API 1st mindset, REST API design
· You should feel comfortable setting up DevOps tools and methods - Functional and automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, Infrastructure as Code, containerized applications (Kubernetes and Docker)
· Experience with Development on GCP – You have a good understanding of cloud storage, databases, serverless and you understand how to use cloud-native in production
WHY JOIN?
We believe this is an amazing time to join. Our company is in a digital transformation which leads to tons of opportunities. We are growing our teams in the Loyalty & Rewards area, because we know there is a lot more that we need to do for our customers. Also, internally we are transforming fast: we are quickly transforming our Product & Engineering Culture, and we have attracted amazing people to work with. Our colleagues are open, friendly, humble and embrace technology. All of us are working extremely hard to make this a great place to work, and we are looking for people to contribute to this amazing movement.
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”
You will be reporting to Selcen Mulazimoglu – engineering manager.
The role is based on Malmö, Sweden.
If you have questions, want to apply, want to know more about our values or are unsure about the requirements or anything else, please ping
selcen.mulazimoglu@ingka.ikea.com
For any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to Shivani Vudugu at shivani.vudugu@ingka.com.