Senior Software Engineer [Fullstack] : Customer Returns

Location: Malmö, Skåne Län, Sweden

Employment Type: Regular

A day in your life with us

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will continuously improve digital products by creating new interfaces, interactions and experiences, adding new integrations, and measuring the impact for customers and co-workers.

In an every-day workday you will do this (among other things): 

o Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure digital solutions in a cloud environment. Tech stack: TypeScript (React, NodeJS). Golang is “good to have”.
o Setup development practices working in Product teams. Ensure good code quality, test-driven development, build CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as a code (Terraform) and ensure the code reviews are done.  
o Be part of the full DevOps process of our product.
o Coach less experienced team members.
o Collaborate and work closely with other teams within our business domain.
o Help the product manager and specialists on the technical inputs, with respect to the roadmap of the products.  
o Collaborate closely with business and IT stakeholders (including suppliers) to improve solution architectures with learnings from best practices within software development and industry. 
o Helping to identify, measure, automate and use the right data points to improve our overall software engineering process and helping with the business to improve our digital products.

Why we will love you

You share our vision of becoming the world’s leading multichannel home furnishing retailer and you believe good software is an essential ingredient of achieving that vision. We believe you have a great understanding of what simplicity and togetherness means. You know when to take and to give responsibility for what needs to be done.

To be successful as a Senior Software Engineer in this position, you have education in computer science or similar and you have demonstrable experience in working on a senior level for 3+ years, working with:

Development & API Design

o Develop, test, and deploy RESTful APIs.
o Optimize backend performance through caching, indexing, and query optimization.
o Hands-on experience building modern, responsive web applications using React, with a focus on performance, accessibility, and reusability.

Cloud-Native Development

o Design and develop serverless and containerized applications.
o Leverage event-driven architectures for real-time data processing.
o Implement application observability using monitoring and logging tools.

DevOps & CI/CD

o Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
o Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
o Optimize cloud resources for cost efficiency and scalability.

You will be committed to giving our co-workers the best user experience possible.

About this work area

Our area focuses on the systems that are being used in Customer Support around the world, both in warehouses and Customer Support Centers. We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a simple and hassle-free returns experience for our many customers around the world through our omnichannel (selfservice, customer support and in-store returns). We collaborate with many other teams across the Digital organisation and integrate with many other systems in our digital landscape. 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.

To ensure our stores can adapt to the ever-changing needs of our customers, it is important to innovate and therefore we have decided to transform our system landscape from legacy monoliths to highly scalable and extensible event-driven architecture. Considering our scale this is a truly challenging adventure we have set ourselves on.

Apply now!

The role is based in Malmö, Sweden.
We look forward to receiving your application in English as soon as possible. Please note that we will be reviewing applications on a continuous basis and no applications can be sent through email.

To enable a modern, lean, and agile IKEA fit for growth in the future, we are currently implementing new systems and changing ways of working in Group P&C. Due to this, we would like to apologise for possible delays that might come up during this recruitment process.