Software Engineering Leader | Range Core

Hej Software Engineering Leader, 

Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions? 

With us, you can feel at home in your 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, discover new tech possibilites, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As a Software Engineering Leader, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before. 

Your new job 

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Leader who wants to solve complex, real-world problems to make life at home simpler. Join us on our journey as we level up our technology to enhance everyday experiences.  

Inter IKEA Group connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and ensures alignment of the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce, and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. 

This role is positioned in Core Business Range, Range Operations, Technology. You will belong to a domain within the Range Core area, reporting to the Software Engineering Area Manager or Software Engineering Manager. Range Core supports key flows in managing the range offer as well as the capabilities needed to create physical products and their core information. Our mission is to simplify and enable product and information creation and maintenance through software.  

Our team is based in Malmö. We believe that working the majority of the time from the workplace is important. 

About the role  

As a Software Engineering Leader, you’ll play an important part in aligning engineering work across teams within a digital product area. You bring valuable IKEA and engineering experience into a setting where both hands-on software engineering and architectural governance are central to the role. 

Your primary focus will be to support technical consistency, scalability and quality across products and platforms, in close collaboration with Software Engineering Managers, Technology Leaders, and Enterprise Architects. The impact of our work continues to resonate in homes and hearts across the world.  

On a typical working day, you will: 

• Align engineering initiatives and best practices across multiple teams within a product area 

• Contribute to and govern architecture design and refactoring in line with enterprise guidelines 

• Support teams with technical decision-making, design patterns and platform usage 

• Drive technical improvements to increase reliability, performance and efficiency 

• Act as an ambassador for software engineering and security best practices 

What we’d like you to bring to the table 

The role as Software Engineering Leader requires you to: 

• Have extensive experience in modern software engineering principles and practices 

• Have strong knowledge of architecture concepts and frameworks (e.g. TOGAF or similar) 

• Have experience governing digital product architecture across teams or product areas 

• Have experience mentoring and leading engineers in complex technical environments 

• Be able to understand and navigate complex business and technology landscapes 

• Have experience driving technical and architectural priorities and implementations across teams 

• Take ownership of a defined technical or product area and proactively drive its evolution and outcomes  

• Independently identify opportunities, challenges and improvements  

• Define and drive technical vision, goals, and roadmaps within your area of responsibility 

• Continuously challenge the status quo and push for improvements in ways of working, architecture, and technical quality 

It’s a plus if you also: 

• Have experience working in large, distributed product organizations 

We welcome your application 

We look forward to receiving your application by 30th of September at the latest. Apply by submitting your CV and please note that we do not ask for a cover letter in this recruitment process. Instead, you will have the opportunity to tell us more about you and your experience through the screening questions in the application system.  

If you have questions about the role or the recruitment process, feel free to contact the Recruiter Vera Bendz vera.bendz1@inter.ikea.com, or Hiring Manager Samir Drincic samir.drincic@inter.ikea.com. 

We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organisational changes. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in IKEA of Sweden and Inter IKEA Technology Services AB, provided competence requirements are met for the role.