Software Engineer - Fulfillment & Core Services

We set the digital agenda to ensure IKEA remains a leader in an exciting and fast-evolving environment. By leveraging both new and existing technologies, we drive the development, provision, and operation of our digital products and services with agile delivery methods, ensuring rapid execution. We are building, integrating, and utilizing software to address complex challenges. Simultaneously, we create an environment that nurtures digital talent, fostering the development of technical, business, and people skills required to continuously enhance and expand our digital capabilities. To fulfill our IKEA vision of "a better everyday life for the many people," we must ensure that the software solutions we create, and use are both sound and sustainable for our customers and co-workers. We empower Ingka and our people to grow sustainably through modern, efficient human resource technology, leading the group's digital agenda in key areas such as Talent, Total Rewards, People Management, and People Planning. We're looking for people to join us who share and are passionate about our IKEA culture and values which play a major part in our business and day-to-day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA, it is important that you naturally lead with our values in mind such as togetherness, renew and improve, simplicity, different with a meaning and caring for people and planet. You can read more about our values and life at IKEA at ikea.com. You're an experienced engineer with a passion for building globally scalable, automatically tested, and reliable systems. You're committed to personal growth and helping others grow, unafraid to ask questions or share knowledge, and always focused on doing the right thing. You're well-versed in best practices, microservice architecture, testing, automation, cloud development, and the tools that support them. While you know perfect code doesn't exist, you continue to pursue it without compromising on delivering value to customers. Our landscape is vast, with numerous domains and subdomains. You know how to collaborate with others and reach consensus, understanding that perfection is the enemy of good. You're always juggling a big backlog, but you have a clear sense of what adds immediate value and what can wait, and you're able to communicate your reasoning to others. Preferred Technical Skills: • At least 4 years of professional experience as a developer, with a focus on the specific tech stack for the role. • Cloud experience, with a preference for GCP; experience with Alibaba Cloud is also valued. • Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, or other container technologies, with modern DevOps practices. • Experience with Go and/or Java programming languages, writing well-designed and efficient code. • Familiarity with Spring Boot microservices and API management. • Experience with event-driven architecture using tools like Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc. • Knowledge of modern, fully automated development and deployment processes. • Strong understanding of design patterns and a high technical aptitude. • Experience with NoSQL and relational database technologies. • Expertise in logging, alerting, tracing, and debugging in cloud environments. • Strong understanding of security concepts, particularly in cloud environments.

We set the digital agenda to ensure IKEA remains a leader in an exciting and fast-evolving environment. By leveraging both new and existing technologies, we drive the development, provision, and operation of our digital products and services with agile delivery methods, ensuring rapid execution. We are building, integrating, and utilizing software to address complex challenges. Simultaneously, we create an environment that nurtures digital talent, fostering the development of technical, business, and people skills required to continuously enhance and expand our digital capabilities. To fulfill our IKEA vision of "a better everyday life for the many people," we must ensure that the software solutions we create, and use are both sound and sustainable for our customers and co-workers. We empower Ingka and our people to grow sustainably through modern, efficient human resource technology, leading the group's digital agenda in key areas such as Talent, Total Rewards, People Management, and People Planning.