Software Engineering Leader (AI & Tech)

We are Inter IKEA a Franchisor in the IKEA Franchise ecosystem. We are also on the journey to consolidate the digital capabilities and business processes at Retail Concept (one of the pillars of Inter IKEA) 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.

This role belongs to a group called Retail Concept Operations which covers multiple areas of responsibility one of which is Digital Capabilities where this team resides.

Our team is known as AI&Tech and our mission is to empower other teams to build GenAIpowered applications through the innovative capabilities of our platform. We take pride in supporting our coworkers by providing them with relevant information in their moments of need through the ChatBots we are developing. While we may be a small team this allows us to operate with agility enabling us to act quickly thoroughly test our ideas and pivot effectively in our efforts. At the same time we are constantly keeping in mind that our goal is to have a satisfied IKEA customer.

About you

You believe that creating great digital products means they are fit for purpose and software engineering supports the business. You have extensive software engineering experience having worked with architecture and other engineers and you are curious to learn new things. As you will be at the forefront of technology with GenAI you possess leadership skills and are adept at explaining and presenting. Since this position is an engineering leader role we think that you are wellversed in the IKEA concept understand brand and commerciality as the ultimate goal for all of us at IKEA is to serve our customers regardless of whether the solutions you are building have an immediate impact on them. Last but not least we believe you are ready to roll up your sleeves and be fully handson in building (both backend and frontend) maintaining and supporting our solutions.

As a Software engineering leader in AI&Tech you will:

Be accountable for engineering and solution architecture within the AI & Tech team but also aligning engineering work across different teams

Be the one who leads by example in working handson on the solutions day to day

Collaborate with engineering chapter members but especially with the Digital product leaders defining the engineering roadmap for the solution.

Collaborate with architecture to ensure the overall solution and implementation across products from a technical engineering perspective to fit together in the scope of a domain aligned with strategies and direction to maintain consistency and alignment with the broader IKEA ecosystem.

Act as an ambassador for engineering and security best practices in the domain and across the organisation.

Do the onboarding of new engineers in the AI & Tech team

Contribute to exploring and developing new technologies to improve system performance and reliability as well as position stack evolution in the architecture strategic roadmaps.

Evaluate existing engineering practices and recommend improvements.

Act as a senior member of the broader technology organisation expected to represent technology internally within IKEA and externally in the market.

Be a champion of engineering principles and assist the digital product leader.

In addition we believe that you: 

Minimum 10 years of software development experience

Minimum 3 years of handson solution architecture

Proven handson experience with LLMs ML platforms

Proven experience in developing GenAI applications particularly chatbots

Strong familiarity with Cloud platforms (Azure AWS..) and containerisation technologies (Docker Kubernetes)

Proven experience with Graph databases (Neo4j or GraphDB) SQL and NOSQL (PostgreSQL CosmosDB MongoDB) and data ingestion (ETL pipelines with Databricks)

Good knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript Python and Java. Any other OOP and functional languages are a plus

Experience in agile and domaindriven product development

Additional Information :

This position is fulltime (40 hours per week) and is located in Delft. Some travel will be required. In this role you will be reporting to the Software Engineering Manager.

At IKEA we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the welcome no matter where you come from what you believe and what you look like. We dont even care how you have furnished your home. Were interested in you simply because youre if your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply believe that peoples different perspectives backgrounds and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs. At IKEA wereall on the same project. 
 
If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process just let us know.  

Please send your application CV in English by the latest 20th 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime