Product Software Engineer
IKEA of Sweden AB · Malmö · Tills vidare · Deadline 2026-11-13
IKEA of Sweden AB is recruiting a **Product Software Engineer** based in Malmö to join the Range Core Engineering organization. Working within the Labels and Marking Management domain, the role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership to build, deploy, and maintain digital products supporting IKEA's labelling systems across the value chain. Responsibilities include governing product architecture, delivering secure and maintainable code, managing dependencies across teams, and mentoring fellow engineers through design reviews and pair programming. This position requires **working most of the time on-site** in the workplace alongside the team. Candidates should have around **7+ years of software engineering experience**, with strong hands-on expertise in RESTful APIs, SQL databases (such as Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL, including data modelling and query optimization), or front-end development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and a modern framework like React, Angular, or Vue. Applicants must have experience governing or influencing product architecture, broad knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, and testing practices, and proven ability to mentor peers through influence. Experience across multiple connected products or technical discovery is advantageous. Applications must be submitted in English.
Hej Product Software Engineer,
Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions?
With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, discover new tech possibilities, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Product Software Engineer, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.
Your new job
IKEA Range Core is part of the Technology area, working with critical digital products that enable the functioning of IKEA. You’ll be part of IKEA of Sweden and the Range Core Engineering organization within Range Operations.
The Range Core Area focuses on building attractive, consistent, and efficient ways of working for pre-product development, our retailers and our suppliers. Our mission is to create a strong foundation for IKEA’s labelling systems, enabling seamless use across the entire value chain.
We’re looking for a Product Software Engineer who wants to combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership to build reliable digital products that contribute to a better everyday life for the many people. You will work within Labels and Marking Management domain developing and operating software while helping govern the product architecture and keeping the technical solution coherent across the product and its closest dependencies. You will lead through expertise, coach other engineers and collaborate with Software Engineering Leaders to achieve all outcomes within the Labels domain. On a typical day, you will:
- Develop, test, deploy and maintain software for Label and Marking Management.
- Govern and evolve the architecture for Label and Marking Management Domain, ensuring coherence, robustness, security, interoperability and appropriate reuse.
- Apply, promote and teach modern software engineering practices, including continuous integration and delivery, automated testing and observability.
- Deliver secure, maintainable and production-ready code aligned with agreed architecture, standards, planning and budget.
- Provide technical direction and mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate across products/ teams to manage dependencies and balance product-specific needs with common solutions.
- Explore new technologies and create proposals or prototypes that improve architecture, productivity or user experience.
- Maintain relevant technical documentation and contribute to indicators that help the team understand delivery and product health.
What we’d like you to bring to the table
The role as Product Software Engineer requires you to:
- Have about 7+ years' experience in software engineering, including strong hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, SQL databases (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL), including data modelling, complex queries, performance optimization, and stored procedures, or front-end development (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) and at least one modern framework (React, Angular, or Vue).
- Have experience governing or significantly influencing digital product architecture, using relevant architecture concepts or frameworks.
- Be a technical coach to the team where you help uplift the team in terms of technical competence.
- Ability to facilitate technical discussions, remove blockers, and support team cohesion and productivity.
- Have broad knowledge of modern engineering practices, secure development, testing, CI/CD, observability and DevOps ways of working.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including active listening, guiding discussions, mediating conflicts, and supporting team development.
- Have proven ability to develop high-quality, maintainable code while making sound technical and architectural trade-offs.
- Have experience leading and mentoring engineers through influence rather than formal people-management responsibility.
- Communicate clearly and collaborate across products, functions, organisational levels and cultural backgrounds.
- Be curious, pragmatic and comfortable navigating uncertainty while balancing delivery, user value, quality and long-term product health.
It’s a plus if you also:
- Have worked across several connected products, platforms or technology domains and managed complex technical dependencies.
- Have experience with prototyping, technical discovery, engineering metrics or improving standards and ways of working at scale.
Be yourself, a Product Software Engineer, and more!
Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.
We welcome your application
Get ready to assemble something new! We look forward to receiving your application by 13th of November.
This position is based in Malmö. We believe that your presence with the team and working most of the time in the workplace is important.
Please also note that we only handle applications in English and no applications coming in by email. If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment process, feel free to connect with the Hiring Manager manasa.konda@inter.ikea.com or the Recruiter vera.bendz1@inter.ikea.com.
At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs.