Junior Software Engineer

Who you are
You’re a seasoned engineer with a passion for building globally scalable, automatically tested, and well-functioning systems. You want to grow yourself and help others to grow, you are not afraid to ask nor to share, you want to do the right thing!
You know your best practices, microservice architecture, testing, automation, cloud development, and the tools that come with it. Perfect code doesn’t exist, but you still chase it, without giving up on delivering customer.
Our landscape is huge, there are many domains and subdomains you will work with, so you need to understand how to reach out to people and reach consent – all whilst knowing that perfect is the enemy of good.
You always have a big backlog, but you have a good understanding of what adds value now and what can wait, and you can explain your thoughts to others.

• Minimum 2 years of professional experience as software engineer with similar level of experience in the specific tech stack for the area.

• Cloud experience, GCP preferred, Alibaba Cloud is also of interest
• Docker, Kubernetes, or other container technologies using modern DevOps practices
• Go, Java or similar programming language experience writing well-designed, efficient code
• Sprint Boot microservices and API management
• Event-driven architecture using tools like Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc.
• Experience with a modern, fully automated development and deployment process
• In-depth understanding of design patterns with strong technical aptitude
• NoSQL and relational database technologies
• Logging, alerting, tracing, and debugging in the cloud
• Security concepts especially around the cloud

We are looking for people to join us who share and are passionate about our IKEA culture and values which play a major part in our business and day-to-day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA, it is important that you naturally lead with our values in mind such as togetherness, renew and improve, simplicity, different with a meaning and caring for people and planet. You can read more about our values and life at IKEA at ikea.com. You will be working from Bengaluru, India.

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.