Junior Software Engineer - Order Promise and Allocation

Junior Software Engineer - Order Promise and Allocation

Job Description

At IKEA, we strongly believe that we can help people and the planet while creating an affordable and better everyday life at home. Believing it is our responsibility to find a greater purpose and create space to innovate. We believe that innovation comes from daring to fail; these stories inspire us to explore and dare to try again. We thrive when meeting incredible people who are on the same mission at IKEA. People who are very humble, supportive, and committed to leading into the future and creating a better life for more of the many people by putting the customers and their homes at the heart of all we do.

Who you are

Curiosity and a love for tinkering define the approach. There's a strong belief that collaboration is more powerful than working in isolation. While holding opinions, the willingness to change based on new data is a core value. Leading by example is important, and energy comes from seeing others succeed through shared efforts.

Actively seeking solutions is preferred over waiting for them to appear. Constantly looking for ways to improve systems, processes, or the team is second nature, and IKEA values resonate deeply. Whether through formal education or self-learning, staying up to date on best practices in software engineering is a priority.

There is no fear in questioning personal assumptions, and a history of flexibility and ownership over systems is evident. Software delivery is intentional, with a focus on creating well-functioning ecosystems, democratic data, smart infrastructure, and resiliency.

Your responsibilities

• Delivering quality software quickly, reliably, and safely to production, and understanding the customer impact and experience of your contribution.
• Work with modern backend technologies like Golang, Java & Python.
• Building and maintaining microservices (containerized workloads, distributed systems, and container orchestration) on public and/or private cloud environments.
• Dev-ops way of working: You write it, you run it, you own it.
• Taking initiative to experiment, prototype new ideas, and generate value.
• Working in agile teams and across the capability areas, contributing to the development and maintenance of products and solutions, community practices at the core of your delivery.
• Applying and adhering to good software engineering practices such as continuous integration, automated tests, pair programming, and code reviews.
• Collaborating in an agile/iterative development approach.
• Providing support and guidance as needed to other developers within the development team encouraging good practices as well as creating an environment based on psychological safety.
• Contributing to the continuous development of standards against which software development should take place as well as exploring and bring in new technologies and tools to boost innovation and development productivity.
• Working closely together with other software engineers and cross functions to produce all required designs and ensure that digital solutions work together, fulfilling business needs.

Our team within IKEA

Hej, my name is Robert. I work as an Engineering Manager within the Order Promise and Allocation subdomain at IKEA. The team owns and develops core services used by the rest of the subdomain in their mission to provide IKEA customers & coworkers with the optimal delivery of purchases. The team is also responsible for supporting the other product teams with best practices related to infrastructure, monitoring and resilience. With hundreds of fulfilment locations across the world and over 10 million people visiting ikea.com daily, we focus on stability, reliability, availability and correctness of our data. Are you a junior software engineer who wants to join our team and be part of shaping the future of IKEA? Robert, Engineering Manager