Software Engineer - Range Selection Tool

We are on the journey to consolidate the digital capabilities and business processes at Retail Concept 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 responsibility areas in the Retail Concept Operations (RCO) following the new Inter IKEA operating model are 

• Retail processes EndtoEnd 

• Digital capability areas  

• and channels 

• ROSS 

In short the responsibility areas are described below 

Retail processes EndtoEnd: The retail process is to describe how IKEA work with retail throughout that value chain. It start with our identity the range. How we manufacture and supply the range to the franchisees and how to communicate sell and create customer fulfillment. The process indirectly defines the capabilities IKEA needs and at least half of the process and capabilities are defined and managed by the franchisees.     

Digital capability areas: It is the different capabilities that support retail concept and consist of both subject matter experts and process people but also digital tools as needed. Tools as currently provided are for example IKEA Digital Design System Skapa IKEA Knowledge graph Visa Retail Guidance Range Selection Tool etc.. 

and channels: This is the external brandbuilding top domain of IKEA online. It is not the sales channel that sits on the franchisee side but rather the part that explains to the customer audience who we are.  

Retail Operation Solution and Support (ROSS): It is the combined upper funnel of retail websites as mainly contracted by IKEA IT AB but also the lower funnel of customer checkout payment order orchestration fulfillment finance customer support and supply. This is a combination of capabilities from Supply and the Microsoft 365 Dynamics Enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform provided as a service to most of the non INGKA franchisees. 

The job as Software engineer is an assignment within the Range Selection Tool digital product in one of our a digital capability areas.  

About you

You believe that creating great digital products means that they are fit for purpose and software engineering is a mean for supporting the business. You have experience in software engineering working together with architecture and engineering leaders and you are curious to learn new things. As this job is a software engineer job in the Range Selection Tool digital product area you have an interest in the IKEA concept the IKEA range and sales as this is a coworker solution for allocating range in the stores.  

In addition we think that you:

• Minimum 5 years of software development experience 

• Experience of agile and domaindriven product development 

• Familiar with Phyton Java Data bricks Sparql and chyper 

• 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 business and the role of technology as an integrated part of the business  

As software engineer you will  

• Develop run and maintain highquality code in the Range Selection Tool digital product using the right toolsets required in order to meet consumer expectations on the delivery  

• Develop highquality software design and architecture in accordance with good practices and agreed standards such as security performance and integration patterns to ensure delivery according to requirements and compliance  

• Work in agile teams in the Range Selection Tool 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 in order to improve time to market and fulfill business needs  

• Drive change activities in different environments in order to secure functionality and availability  

• Deliver tests performance analysis configuration management and creation of functional/feature specifications to improve the product and service delivery  

• Continuously explore and evaluate new technologies in order 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 adopting different engineering patterns in the product development but also in the wider of Retail Concept Operations 

Additional Information :

This position is fulltime 40 hours per week) and is locatedin Malm Sweden. Some travel will be this role you will be reporting to the Software Engineering Manager. 

Please send your application CVin English latest Tuesday 13th of May 2025. We really want to get to know you so make sure you tell us why you want to work at IKEA and why you would be a good fit for this role. 

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process you are welcome to reach out to recruiter Linnea Dietrichson at  

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime