IKEA is preparing for the future. Do you want to be part of creating it?

The goal of IPEX - IKEA Planning experience is to support and empower customers to find their personal best home furnishing solutions. We run and develop digital solutions used by customers and co-workers enabling them to design homes and home furnishing solutions for the entire IKEA range for all IKEA retailers. Part of our portfolio are planning solutions for Kitchens, Bathrooms, Storage solutions, Beds... Our next big step ahead will be to enable customers to design their full homes.

Our customers should experience an inspiring, fun, simple and rewarding planning journey based on their needs and preferences. Our co-workers and service partners should experience a fun, efficient and unbroken sales process.

The solutions and capabilities we develop are an integral part of the entire seamless buying and selling experience in digital and physical customer meetings points and a key contributor to converting visitors into happy customers and to engaging with our customers from the start. Utilizing data around and about our solutions to continuously improve and create more personalized experiences is an integral part of our work.

Being a Developer in the IPEX team

As a Developer in the IPEX team you will be part of creating solutions that enable customers to design any space in their homes and businesses and configure home furnishing solutions digitally, exploring and utilizing different technologies and approaches. 

Your first assignment will be will be connected to creating Kitchen planning experiences, where you´ll be working with a pipeline and a product which handles aggregated product data together with 3D assets. The orchestration is a spark based serverless pipeline sectioned in multiple regions. The product itself is browser native as a part of a suite of services within an online offer.

To be successful in this role

Coding is your passion. You enjoy creating solutions that are playful and intuitive, are scalable and maintainable together with a team. You are curious and innovative and enjoy solving challenges. You have a great interest and proven track record in creating great solutions/ experiences for users and understanding how new technologies can improve customer and co-worker experiences. Maybe you work or have worked with developing computer games.

Ideally you also have strong interest in home furnishing and people’s everyday life at home, experience from and a good understanding of customer and co-worker needs in the buying and selling process. You are interested in current and future digital technology trends and how they can contribute to solve business and customer/ co-worker needs.

You need to have:

• Very good knowledge of React

• Good knowledge of AWS

• Very good knowledge of Node

• Good knowledge of Serverless

• Very good knowledge of Javascript (ES6)

• Very good knowledge of CSS/SCSS

• Some knowledge of Selenium (or other framework like it)

• Good knowledge of Jest (or other unit testing framework)

• Some experience working with microservices

You enjoy an agile and iterative, yet structured way of working and achieving results together with a team in a flexible environment, but also have a strong individual drive to deliver high quality results on time. You have great communication and networking skills and are fluent in written and spoken English.

Travelling based on project needs will be necessary.

About Inter IKEA Systems and Core Business Franchise

Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is the franchisor and the owner of the IKEA Concept, including the IKEA trademarks. In Core Business Franchise we are responsible for the IKEA strategic framework and keeping it together through an IKEA Concept which is updated, relevant, implemented and followed-up together with all IKEA trademark users. We enable IKEA people in the value chain by developing new ways of working supported by processes, methods, tools and services, and we also develop the business by leading:

• The development of solutions that will ensure a unique and successful meeting with existing and new IKEA customers.
• When and how IKEA expands, enabling one common way of working with high impact at a low cost.

Does this sound like your next challenge? We welcome your application!

The position is located in Malmö. It is a full time position (40h/week). Travel will be required.

Please send your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English by 15th February 2020. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Gregor Podlewski, HR generalist for IKEA Retail Experience.

We will assess and interview candidates continuously as the applications come in.