SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Who We Are?
At Group Digital, we put people first and use data & technology as a force of good for more of the many. We drive digitalization and operational performance across IKEA using leading edge technologies in a fast-paced agile model. At the same time, we develop digital competence and create behavioral shift, accelerate digital ethics and responsible AI.Our mission in Insights and Business Safeguarding is to maximize entrepreneurship and performance of our colleagues through digitalization and simplification, so that we can monitor, steer, plan and safeguard our business.
Our ambition is to become leading product teams delivering valuable and user-friendly products and services to colleagues, to help them be more productive and successful. We deliver a business safeguarding framework allowing for improved identification of risks and reaction to existing and evolving IKEA landscape.
What are we looking for?
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 many people.
The product stack we are building is used by many users in IKEA to identify potential fraud anomalies and patterns in various areas. By automating the evaluation and reporting of associated fraud anomalies through data we will have greater visibility of frequency and types of fraud, in addition to reducing the investigation time. We support our Safety and Security co-workers in identifying and selecting “abnormal” case samples to review, and as a result streamline approach across countries
As a full stack developer, you will be part of a cross-functional product team with an agile mindset and ways of working. You will develop, maintain, support, and enhance the Risk Analytics product
Your skills include:
- Over 7 years of development experience in which more than 4 years is in frontend development
Fluent in JS, HTML and CSS
- Strong experience in JavaScript & typescript based front end frameworks, preferably Vue.js and good knowledge of backend framework, preferably Node.js
- Strong core software design principles with a proven track record of development/code experience
- Experience working with API based authentication services i.e. MS Active Directory
- Experience in agile development methodologies
- Experience developing & implementing front end security best practices
- Experience in front end data modeling and architecture, developing apps on cloud platforms (preferably GCP)
- Experience in ML Ops/Data Ops, Infrastructure-as-a-code such as CloudBuild & Terraform
- Good experience in end-to-end product testing is a must
Your responsibilities will include:
- Be a front-end lead developer who owns the end-to-end front-end code base with an architecture mindset of the product
- Work in close collaboration with UX designer and product owner/specialist in implementing new ideas and maintaining existing functionalities based on Node + Vue
- Being accountable for delivering quality software code with customer impact in mind
- Applying and adhering to good software engineering practices
- Work with a team of cross-functional engineers, product owner/specialist, business stakeholders, data engineers and data scientists in close collaboration
- Prototype new ideas, both individually and across teams. You are fully encouraged to fail and learn than stay where you are.
- Providing support and guidance as needed to continuously improve as a team in the latest engineering practices and technologies
What is the icing on the cake?
You will be a part of an open culture and our vision “To Create a Better Everyday Life for the Many People” not just for our customers, but also for our co-workers and our partners. You will work and thrive in a people and planet positive work environment with our core values taking the center stage.
Some of the perks that we offer:
- A workplace where you can be yourself
- Equal pay (Our salaries are set independently of race, gender, age or other individual characteristics)
- Continuous learning on the job as well as structured trainings and platforms
- Co-worker discount
- World’s greatest colleagues
- And much more…
LET’S START OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER!


The role is based in Helsingborg, Sweden.
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 would 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 recruitmnt process, please reach out to Engineering Manager; Hari Krishnan Anantha Krishna, at harikrishnan.anantha.krishna@ingka.ikea.com
If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to our recruiter Batool Malik at: batool.malik@ingka.com
Please note that we will be interviewing continuously. We look 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.