Job ID: 248786

Date posted: 24/08/2024

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. You care about your team and its software, and you continuously push for improvements in quality and speed. Together we will design, develop, deploy, release, and run our applications.

As a person you have a proven ability to develop high quality code using and applying good practices such as SOLID and DRY on the front- and backend. You are not afraid to share your opinion and join conversations with other product teams to set common standards. You have a curious nature, and you actively acquire new knowledge, skills, and digital systems to improve your way of working.

To be successful as a Full Stack Frontend Engineer you have advanced training in computer science or similar and you have demonstrable experience in working in an agile and DevOps environment.

You should feel very much at home in various ecosystems and programming environments, as well as understanding different techniques and technologies such as React/NextJS, CSS, Cypress/Playwright, i18n, Node/Typescript, Kotlin/Java, cloud systems knowledge (vendor independent), infrastructure as code (Terraform), microservices, REST and event driven architectures.

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

A day in your life with us

As part of this transition to a digital future for IKEA, our subdomain is looking for software engineers to build the foundation for this initiative.

Our team is creating products for co-workers to receive products in stores and distribution centers in a simple, efficient, and predictable way. As a Full Stack Frontend Engineer, you will continuously improve these products by creating new interfaces, interactions and experiences, adding new integrations, and measuring the impact for the co-worker.

The user experience of the product is a top priority for you as a developer: With your contribution our product feels fast and consistent.

Being part of the full DevOps process of our product. From understanding the problem to designing the solution - to delivering, testing, and running our products on production.

Applying and adhering to good software engineering practices. We love simplicity!

Providing support and guidance as needed to other developers within and outside the development team and encouraging good practices.

Contributing to the continuous development of standards against and exploring and bringing in modern technologies and tools to boost innovation and development productivity.

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.

About this work area

We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. 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.

Our subdomain focuses on the systems that are being used in our warehouses and over 420 stores worldwide. Our systems are being used by over 170,000 co-workers and handle over 1 million bulk goods deliveries and 7 million customer returns yearly.

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.

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The role is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Feel free to contact the recruiter looking after this vacancy - david.jones5@ingka.com

Please note that we will be interviewing continuously. We look forward to hearing from you!