Software Engineering Leader

We are on the journey to consolidate the digital capabilities at Retail Concept across the leadership areas IKEA Retail Experience, Brand & Marketing, Learning and Development and Expansion. A journey that needs passionate people who embrace change and development, dare to question and want to make a difference. If that sounds like you, come and join us. Together we can do great things so IKEA can be an even better home furnishing retailer in the future.  

The main products in the digital capability area are 
IKEA digital design system – Skapa 
Digital retail experiences – Visa 
IKEA knowledge graph (customer and co-worker) 
IKEA.com global 
IKEA.net for co-worker learning 
Cornerstone learning solutions 
SEO & Domain 
Common web 
Those product cover the digital conceptual frame for IKEA.com, the co-worker serving information for Inter IKEA group and all franchisees on IKEA.net and Inter IKEA group internal web (IKEA Home) on inter.ikea.net.  

About you… 

You believe that creating great digital products means that they are fit for purpose and software engineering is a mean for supporting the business. You have extensive experience in software engineering, working together with architecture and other engineers and you are curios to learn new things. As you will lead other engineers, you must be skilled in leadership and be good in explaining and presenting. As this job is an engineering leader job in the knowledge graph digital product area, you must also be well rooted in the IKEA concept, understand brand and commerciality as the graph is an enabling capability for both customer and co-worker solutions such as IKEA.com and learning.  

In addition, we expect 
Minimum 10 years of software development experience 
Minimum 3 years of hands-on solution architecture 
Minimum 3 years Knowledge graph tech hands on experience 
Good knowledge of IKEA.com and IKEA.net and eCommerce 
Experience of agile and domain driven product development 
Familiar with Node.js, Phyton, Java, Data bricks, SPARQL and Chyper, triple-stores, business API’s 
Having great knowledge of high-performant SL1 services as the runtime part of the knowledge graph must meet high non functional requirements. 
As software engineering leader, you will  
Be accountable for engineering and solution architecture within the graph tech area but also aligning engineering work across teams within the domain. 
Collaborate with engineering chapter members but especially with the digital product leader defining the engineering roadmap for the solution  
Collaborate with architecture to ensure the overall solutioning and implementation across products from a technical engineering perspective to fit together in the scope of a domain, aligned with strategies and direction to maintain consistency and alignment with the broader IKEA ecosystem 
Ensure modularize, scale, integration while meeting resiliency, performance, reusability, along with business and architecture goals. 
Drive adoption of design patterns, efficient usage of cross-cutting technology platforms and solutions to reuse across product teams in the domain to enable efficiency and avoid unnecessary duplications.  
Act as an ambassador for engineering and security best practices in the domain and across organisation. 
Onboard new engineers in the graph tech area  
Contribute to the exploration and further development of new technologies to improve system performance and reliability and position stack evolution in the architecture strategic roadmaps. 
Decide and communicate on strategic engineering priorities, emphasize collective goals, co-create and own technical roadmap in the graph tech area.  
Evaluate existing engineering practices and recommend improvements.  
Act as a senior member of the broader technology organisation, expected to represent technology both internally within IKEA and external in the market.  
Be a champion of engineering principles assisting the digital product leader 


It is a full time position (40h/week). Travel may be required in the future. The position is located in Malmö, Sweden. Note that no relocation support is offered for this position. If you have questions about the vacancy, please contact Ian Blackwood (ian.blackwood1@inter.ikea.com) 

Please send your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English by Wednesday 16th August 2023. We will assess and interview candidates continuously as the applications come in.