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AdTech Software Engineer

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  • Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • Marketing et Communication

Description de poste

  • Numéro de l'offre: 373292

  • Date de publication: 20/10/2026

    • Who you are

    We are looking for a strong AdTech Software Engineer (Backend) to join our Marketing Acquisition Team. For this role, it’s important that you are passionate about advertising technology, development, product, customer, and business. We want to see that you enjoy using technology to solve problems, not merely just to implement features. You like to have end-to-end responsibility. We are looking for missionaries, not mercenaries. We want to find engineers who are outcome focused and push themselves and the team to a higher level.

    From a technology perspective, we expect that you have the ability to develop high-quality code and have high-quality engineering standards. We want you to have a curious nature and actively acquire new knowledge, skills, champion new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance. We want you to learn continuously and push the team to reach our common goals.

    Why we will love you

    YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
    As AdTech Software Engineer (Backend), your main responsibilities will include:
    •Development of new AdTech solutions, like focusing on data transfer to paid media channels to find lookalikes and to retarget customers or any AdTech solutions.
    •Stakeholder management and continuous collaboration with related teams and external parties like Facebook, Instagram, Google and other paid media channels. This consists of API integrations from other teams and helping other teams implement our platform’s API’s. This will be an intense collaboration which we expect you to lead
    •Setting up the solution and data architecture from scratch, including data pipelines, DevOps practices and native cloud components
    •Being responsible for the development of high quality (software) code which has been tested and is ready to be shipped
    •Strong data analytical skills as a part of the team working on data transfer
    •Handling advertising tag management and implementation on the IKEA website
    •Logging, alerting, tracing in the cloud
    •Security concepts especially around transfer of personal data
    •Working in agile teams in across the capability areas, contributing to the development and maintenance of products and solutions
    •Applying and adhere to good practice software engineering practices (e.g. DRY principles, TDD and BDD, continuous integration, automated tests, pair programming, code reviews) within an agile/iterative development approach
    •Providing support and guidance as needed to other developers and other teammates from other disciplines and encouraging good practices
    •Contributing to the continuous development of standards against which software development should take place as well as exploring and bring in new technologies to boost innovation and development productivity
    •Working closely together with other software engineers and cross functions to meet design requirements and ensure that digital solutions work together and fulfil business needs

    YOUR SKILLSET
    We first look at your values and your abilities. When the values and abilities match our expectations for this position, we will look at your skillset.
    As Adtech Software Engineer you need to have the below skillsets:
    •Strong expertise on Digital Marketing and Integration with Paid Media Channels (Facebook, Instagram, Google, DSPs, YouTube etc..)
    •Strong software engineering experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
    •Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable cloud platforms.
    •Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub-based development workflows.
    •Strong understanding of API design, system integrations, and scalable distributed architectures.
    •Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
    •Experience designing, building, and operating production systems end to end.
    •Because you will be creating a new platform which involves a lot of collaborations with other teams, we expect you to be good at stakeholder management and good at integrating with other projects and external parties
    •Mobile app development skills are a plus, as we work on mobile-related tasks

    Together as a team

    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.

    Apply now!

    Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.

    From: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified” by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014”

    The role is based in Madrid, Spain.

    "In line with our value of togetherness we believe the best way for us to collaborate and co-create is when we meet in the office. This is why we expect you to spend the majority of time in the office."

    We will be interviewing continuously and are looking forward to hearing from you!

    Internal title: Software Engineer

    “In this recruitment there is no relocation support provided by IKEA; hence we are looking for people living in the mentioned location.”

    Fluent English, both written and spoken, is essential, as English is the working language of the global platform team.

    PLEASE NOTE
    Please respect that due to GDPR we cannot review any applications coming to us in other ways than through our recruitment program. Please submit with your application in English.




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