Software Engineer | Product Specification Engineering Management

Hej Software Engineer!  

Do you want to furnish the future to make room for everyone?   
  
With us, you can feel at home at work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Software Engineer, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.   
  
We are looking for a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our Digital Product Area: “Product Engineering”, a part of Digital Engineering at Inter IKEA, Range. The Product Engineering Area is dedicated to ensuring an attractive, consistent, and efficient way of working for product development and our suppliers. Our goal is to establish a strong foundation for IKEA's product information, enabling its seamless use across the entire value chain. We are growing our team in Malmö, Sweden, and are looking for someone with strong communication and collaboration skills who can work effectively with colleagues across locations and seamlessly collaborate with our offshore team. 

Your new job   

We’re looking for a Software Engineer who wants to solve complex, real-world challenges and building digital products that make everyday work simpler and more effective. Join us on our journey as we level up our technology to enhance everyday experiences. You will help shape the next generation of engineering platforms that enable effective collaboration between IKEA and suppliers around the globe. Through our modernized Supplier Collaboration Platform and Standard Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) initiatives, you will develop scalable solutions that simplify how product information is shared, managed, and governed across the value chain. You will report to a Software Engineering Manager. The impact of your work will touch homes and hearts around the world.  

On a typical day, you will:  

• Help shape and evolve the modernized Supplier Collaboration Platform, enabling seamless collaboration between IKEA engineers and suppliers across the globe.  

• Design, build, and maintain modern web applications, APIs, and cloud-native services using technologies such as React, .NET10 and Azure.  

• Contribute to the Standard Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) initiative, helping create scalable, secure, and user-centric solutions that support the future of product development.  

• Work across the full product lifecycle, from discovery and solution design to implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement.  

• Collaborate closely with engineers, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to solve complex challenges and deliver business value.  

• Influence technical direction and contribute to architecture, design decisions, and engineering best practices.  

• Foster a culture of collaboration, openness, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing.  

• Bring curiosity and fresh ideas that improve both our digital products and the way we work.  

• Ensure high-quality, maintainable software through code reviews, automated testing, observability, and modern software engineering practices. 

What we’d like you to bring to the table   
  
This role as a Software Engineer requires you to:   

• Have strong hands-on experience in .NET 10 backend development, combined with modern frontend development using React, with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.  

• Be proficient in designing, building, and operating scalable web applications, APIs, and cloud-native solutions.  

• Have solid experience working with Microsoft Azure and modern cloud architectures.  

• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate business needs into robust technical solutions. 

• Have good interpersonal skills: active listening, coaching and facilitation.   

• Be an excellent communicator by communicating in a clear, structured and honest way – both with inhouse and offshore team and colleagues    

• Have a deep understanding of IKEA's core values and cultural principles as well as a mindset and way of working that reflects this   

It’s a plus if you also:   

• Have experience working with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems, supplier collaboration platforms, or other enterprise solutions that support product development processes. 

• Worked with CI/CD, Terraform (IaC), Github Actions and cloud services   

• Have knowledge of RDBMS database technologies like Postgres DB, Oracle 

• Have experience with Playwright for Frontend testing   

• Are skilled in building dynamic and responsive user interfaces with React   

Be yourself, a Software Engineer and more!   

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce, and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.   

Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co-worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down-to-earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow. Make us the home of your career.   

We welcome your application   

Get ready to assemble something new! We look forward to receiving your application by 13th of November.  

This position is based in Malmö. We believe that your presence with the team and working the majority of the time in the workplace is important.   

Please also note that we only handle applications in English and no applications coming in by email. If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment process, feel free to connect with the Hiring Manager prabu.sukumar@inter.ikea.com or the Recruiter monaka.perumal@inter.ikea.com.  

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs.   

If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.