Junior Software Engineer
IKEA Accelerator Programme 2023
Are you a passionate fresh graduate or with 1-2 years of job experience?
We are looking for problem solvers who have a humanistic approach. You are curious and enjoy learning and innovating, pushing your skills and feeling safe with a leader and a team that you trust. You see the joy in sharing your success but also the strength in sharing failures. Just like us, you’re inspired to create impactful digital experiences for the IKEA customers and co-workers.
We offer you a unique chance to experience and grow with us at IKEA. We are looking for engineers within: Frontend, Fullstack and Backend/API who are early in their career – either fresh graduates or those who have a few years of job experience – and are excited about new technology, making great interfaces for our users with innovative ways of working and want to be a part of shaping the future of IKEA!
What you become a part of
You will belong to a product team from day one and your time will be divided between your work in your team and attending programme activities. Your product team builds a part of digital IKEA: from the IKEA.com website and app all the way through to essential systems for our co-workers to do their jobs effectively. We are building future customer and co-worker experiences for IKEA. We use modern technologies and ways of working (e.g. cloud-native microservices, CI/CD, Agile, DevOps and edge computing). We strive to be highly data-driven in decision making and we constantly explore new technologies like machine learning and AR/VR. To read more about the technologies we use, please visit Techradar.
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What's in it for you?
You will be a part of a great culture as well as our vision “to create a better everyday life for the many people” – for customers and co-workers. You will work and thrive in a truly people and planet positive work environment. Some of the perks that we offer:
- A workplace where you can be yourself
- Equal pay (our salaries are set independently of race, gender, age or other individual characteristics)
- Continuous opportunities for learning and development
- Co-worker discount
- World’s greatest colleagues
- Creating impact
- Lots of fun challenges
- And much more…
The IKEA culture and values are very much a part of our business and day to day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA it’s important for us that you share our values! You can read more regarding those and life at IKEA on our culture and values.
Words from Chief Technology Officer
IKEA is a name that is recognised around the world for its great furniture and more recently its position on topics such as climate change and sustainability, but what about its technology? Our mission in Digital Technology is simple actually, build a technology foundation and engineering capability that can match this level of expectation and then surpass it. We are building a new digital IKEA that will build on the values that have driven much of our success, whilst also recognizing the need to embrace the next wave of disrupters, challengers and bold thinkers. We want you to join us and define the new IKEA!
Timeline
Your development within IKEA
We are a purpose led company that people choose for what we stand for, sharing a vision and values where people can be themselves. With our holistic view, fostering togetherness and an entrepreneurial spirit; you will have the opportunity to do what you love and develop your skills. We depend on you as our co-worker, when you grow - IKEA grows.
Let’s start our journey together!
Better everyday life
We have one common vision at the IKEA Group: To create a better everyday life for the many people. With over 700 million visitors to our stores and over 1 billion visitors to our website every year, we take our vision very seriously.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.