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We are on a journey to consolidate the digital capabilities at Retail Concept Operations 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 Retail Concept 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

These products cover the digital conceptual framework for IKEA.com, the co-worker serving information for Inter IKEA group, and all franchisees on IKEA.net and the 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 that software engineering is a means for supporting the business. You have experience in software engineering, working together with engineering leaders and other engineers. You are also curious to learn new things. As this job is a software developer role in the knowledge graph digital product area, you must have an interest 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 co-worker facing learning solutions.

In addition, we expect:

• Minimum 3 years of software development experience
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with knowledge graph technology
• Knowledge of IKEA.com, IKEA.net, and eCommerce
• Experience in agile and domain-driven product development
• Familiarity with Node.js, Python, Java, Data bricks, Sparql, and Cypher
• Ability to encourage simplicity, efficiency, ownership, and accountability
• Ability to change direction as appropriate based on new ideas, approaches, and strategies
• Ability to collaborate with others (including virtual) such as team members, stakeholders, and suppliers to achieve goals
• Good ability to communicate technical concepts and processes clearly at an appropriate level to team members, stakeholders, and suppliers
• Ability to understand the complexity of IKEA's business and the role of technology as an integrated part of the business

As a software developer, you will:

• Develop, run, and maintain high-quality code in the knowledge graph product using the right toolsets required to meet consumer expectations on delivery
• Work in agile teams in the knowledge graph product, in a DevOps setup. “You build and you run it.”
• Apply and promote good software engineering practices, including continuous integration and delivery, within an agile/iterative development approach to improve time to market and fulfill business needs
• Drive change activities in different environments to secure functionality and availability
• Deliver tests, performance analysis, configuration management, and creation of functional/feature specifications to improve the knowledge graph product and service delivery
• Continuously explore and evaluate new technologies to boost innovation and productivity for optimization/modifications to the current design and development productivity
• Provide support and guidance as needed to consumers and other engineers encouraging good practices
• Develop and adopt different engineering patterns in the knowledge graph product development but also in Retail Concept Operations

A few more details for you

This position is full-time (40 hours per week) and is located in Malmö, Sweden. Some travel will be required.

Please send your application – CV in English by Wednesday, November 6th. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why this position motivates you and what you think you could contribute.

In this role, you will report to the Software Engineering Manager.

We always recruit based on values, competence, potential, and diversity. We will prioritize co-workers employed in Inter IKEA Systems BV, Inter IKEA Services BV, Inter IKEA Systems Service AB, and Inter IKEA.