Software Engineer

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.
You share our vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people and you believe good software is an essential ingredient in achieving that vision. We believe you have a great understanding of what simplicity and togetherness means and you know when to give and take responsibility for what needs to be done. You care about your team and its product, and you continuously push for improvements.
You have some experience and with all or parts of the tech stack or have a burning desire to develop your skills on it. Expertise in cloud native, Google Cloud Platform, microservices, event-architecture and DevOps is meritable
WHO WE ARE
We are a new team of software developers belonging in the Selling subdomain of IKEA Digital where we focus on the many systems interacting to support sales orders generated through purchases from IKEA.
IKEA is on an exciting mission to modernize our technical landscape, creating an efficient and scalable architecture where we focus on single responsibility & separation of concern.
One of the modernization initiatives is the new Order Communication team whose responsibility is providing a unified way for various teams and products to keep our customers informed on their business with us; a central and important part of creating an enjoyable customer experience.
We’re mostly located at our offices in Malmö & Helsingborg but collaborate with coworkers from all over the world.
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN
You resonate with our vision & values, and wish to grow as one of the pioneers of a new team where you are encouraged to put your own creative touch on what and how we do things.
You want to work with modern technologies and methodologies and are excited to embrace DevOps. You’re encouraged by the prospect of designing and building something new rather than providing life support on legacy system. You thrive in an environment without a jungle of processes & bureaucracy.
More than anything, you’re excited to doing this together with your co-workers.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Having a service oriented technical landscape lets us have a diverse tech stack among teams. Across the organization we have teams mainly running Kotlin, Golang, Python or JavaScript / TypeScript.
-Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
-Git, GitHub & GitHub Actions
-Linux / macOS / Windows - you decide what works best for you
Our solution is mostly event-driven and while we build in GCP, we’re keeping a cloud vendor agnostic mindset and a pragmatic and rationale-based approach to the tools we choose & the decisions we make together.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
-Being a key member in an initially small team
-Collaborate with experienced peer teams to engineer quality solutions
-Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code
-Build and maintain infrastructure & CI/CD pipeline
-Create foundations for great observability
-Participate & contribute to the team’s agile activities
-Working from home and/or the office
PLEASE NOTE
Due to GDPR we can't review any applications coming to us in other ways than through our recruitment program.
Our primary concern since the outbreak of corona virus has been the health and safety of our co-workers and candidates. Because of this, we have adapted our recruiting processes to be fully digital.
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”