The world is changing and IKEA is changing with it. However, one thing will always remain the same,  our vision to create a better everyday life for the many people.   

We have invested extensively within the area of Spatial Computing and Visual Intelligence, both in exploration cases as well as in the real world. Currently our solutions are integrated around the globe embedded in IKEA retailer apps (iOS and Android) and their websites.   

Take a look yourself: IKEA Place (iOS), IKEA Studio commercial links, website links with visual search.   

Spatial Computing and Visual Intelligence are so much more than curious features; they are likely to become vital for IKEA, not at least in the shopping context. We fully believe in this area, giving our customers an experience in the IKEA metaverse.  

And we are only getting started: Now is the time to truly scale our efforts by establishing a new Platform Area of Spatial Computing & Visual Intelligence ensuring relevant, scalable, long-term and reliable services and solutions based on the needs from of franchisees and across the IKEA value-chain.  

About you   

We’d love to hear from people who have skills & experiences:  

• Good understanding how to build & operate Azure cloud services, microservices and APIs  

• Deep understanding how they operate and fail  

• Experience with C# MVC .NET development, (MS)-SQL, Python, NodeJS  

Great to have:  

• Familiarity with other cloud services like AWS, GCP, or similar  

• DevOps ways of working experience (tools, organisation, processes)  

• Understanding about cloud best practices (e.g. security, performance improvement)   

• Managing Infrastructure as Code experience  

About the role   

Your job as platform software engineer is to be a developer with a primary focus on the back-end development of our current Augmented Reality solutions. As the solution is developed in an agile way, you will be part of the team on a daily basis, defining tasks, coding them, testing other product member tasks and more. In addition to continuous development of the current backend solution, you will also work closely with our front-end engineers, consuming product teams and our franchisees, as well as innovation teams exploring new opportunities in the area of Spatial Computing.  

About our team & IKEA values   

We are a diverse bunch from game enthusiasts, skiers, mountain bikers, people that like urban intelligence, environmental architecture, art design, artificial intelligence and more.  

Here you can read more about our values www.ikea.com and keep in mind most things remain to be  done: https://bit.ly/ikea-what-if    

• We are looking for a Software Engineers to join the Spatial computing platform team on a full time basis (40h/week)  

• Travels may be required  

• The position can be located in Malmö, Sweden or in Delft, the Netherlands  

• Please send your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English. We will assess and interview candidates continuously as the applications come in