Senior Software Engineer Devops focus

Who we are
Hi, my name is Oliver and I’m an engineering manager within Order Management in Ingka Digital (IKEA). We’re a unique company that gives you space to fit in and enables you to make use of your skills. Our systems are being used by over 170,000 co-workers and serve over 4 billion customers globally!
We’re in the midst of the transformation from legacy monoliths to an event-driven cloud architecture. You wouldn’t have dealt with as many orders as go through our system (and if you have – talk to me!), so scalability becomes second nature, for both performance and cost.
There are heaps of challenges in front of us, but we’re prepared and look forward to becoming truly agile with a modern architecture – and maybe with your help?
We’re not chasing shareholder value, we want to help the many people to have a better everyday life.
Who you are
You’re a seasoned engineer with a passion for automation and building better systems. You want to grow yourself and help others to grow, you are not afraid to ask nor to share, you want to do the right thing!
You know your best practices, microservice architecture, testing, automation and cloud development, and the tools that come with it. Perfect code doesn’t exist, but you still chase it, without giving up on delivering value.
Our landscape is huge, there are many domains and subdomains you will work with, so you need to understand how to reach out to people and reach a consent – all whilst knowing that perfect is the enemy of good.
You always have a big backlog, but you have a good understanding of what adds value now and what can to wait, and you can explain your thoughts to others.
Here are some technologies and skills we’re looking for, ideally you have multiple of these:
• Cloud experience, GCP preferred, Alibaba Cloud is also of interest
• Terraform or similar – more than just a couple of bash scripts
• Docker, Kubernetes or other container and container orchestration technologies
• Experience with fully automated CI/CD pipelines and development processes
• GitHub Actions or similar
• Logging, alerting, tracing and debugging in the cloud
• Security concepts especially around the cloud
• Go, Java or similar programming language experience, especially in a microservice setup
• Event-driven or at least an understanding of asynchronous architecture
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 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!
Our team within IKEA
Order Management – you might know it, or you might have no clue! Either is fine, as we’ll help you to get an understanding and find your ways around creating, executing, releasing and deviating orders. This won’t get boring thanks to many different flows and integrations in our omni channel setup!
We aim to have driven, empowered agile teams who understand priorities and how to come to agreements with other teams and domains. We’re all in this together and we try to help others and share our knowledge often.
We want to become best in class – yes, that’s a lofty goal, but why aim for less? If you feel the same then you’ll fit right in, come and help us push boundaries!
We have values and we live them – they’re all important and I’m happy to share them with you in more detail, but these stand out for me: Togetherness, Simplicity, leading by example and different with a meaning – get in touch and I can explain in detail!
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!
You will be reporting to Oliver Kastler – engineering manager within Order Management in Ingka Digital (IKEA).
The role is based on Helsingborg, Sweden. We also have offices in Malmö and – of course – in Älmhult. We’re also very flexible around work from home or remote, however you will have to be present in the office in times (let’s talk if you disagree!).
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 oliver.kastler@ingka.ikea.com!
For any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to Shivani Vudugu at shivani.vudugu@ingka.com.
Please note that we will be interviewing continuously. Looking forward to hearing from you!
We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.