Software engineer: backend - fulfilment and core services

Software Engineer: Backend - Fulfilment and Core Services

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Why we will love you

Hej!

At IKEA, you're welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, or what you look like. We don't even care how you've furnished your home. We're interested in you simply because you're you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work, and spark new ideas. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people.

As a Software Engineer at Recovery Digital, within Ingka's Inventory and Logistics domain, you'll help empower IKEA coworkers globally to manage returned and damaged products. If you're a Java/Spring developer passionate about product quality, speed to market, and continuous improvement, you'll feel right at home here.

Essential Experience:

Java/Spring: Intermediate level experience
Microservices & SOLID principles: Intermediate understanding
Kubernetes/Docker: Intermediate level experience
CI/CD: Basic configuration knowledge, theoretical understanding
Database systems: Hands-on experience with production databases

Nice To Have:

Kotlin: Basic level
Functional Programming: Interest in learning is a must
Event-Driven & Reactive Programming: Basic knowledge
Cloud Platforms (e.g., Google Cloud): Basic familiarity
Infrastructure as Code (IAC): Basic understanding
Observability & Monitoring tools: Experience is a plus

A day in your life with us

At IKEA, our mission is to simplify life for our coworkers worldwide. As part of our Recovery team, you'll work on iRecover-a mobile-first inventory management solution supporting 350 stores across 40 countries.

Here's What You'll Do:

Build and maintain robust microservices that enable coworkers to manage returns and damaged products.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver quality features on a rapid, iterative schedule.
Bring your Agile mindset and growth attitude, adapting to new challenges and technologies as we scale iRecover globally.

About this work area

We're the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.

Our engineering culture is one of respect, commitment, and continuous learning. We're a diverse team that values honesty, fun, and high performance. We track our success with DORA metrics-achieving daily deployment frequency, a change failure rate below 1% and a 99.9% uptime.

In Our Team:

We're patient and pragmatic, understanding the challenges of digital transformation.
We respect each other's ideas and communication styles.
We enjoy our work, whether it's solving tough problems or celebrating our wins outside the office.


In line with our value of togetherness we believe the best way for us to collaborate and co-create is when we meet in the office. This is why we expect you to spend the majority of time in the office.

Please apply with your application in English.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

At IKEA we are convinced that an equal everyday is a better everyday. We put equality, inclusion and humanism at the heart of everything we do, including recruitment. We are committed to creating a workplace as diverse as the world is, and as inclusive as the world should be. We actively work for IKEA to be a place where people of all genders, ethnicities, races, nationalities, abilities, sexual orientations feel welcome and able to be themselves.