Software Developer - IKEA Knowledge Graph
Inter IKEA Group is organized in three core businesses - Range, Supply and Retail Concept - and five enabling functions. Together we contribute to the success of IKEA and share responsibility for the franchise offer.
The enabling functions lead key common activities in networks across Inter IKEA Group, as well as cover specific needs for the core businesses. The five Enabling functions are Operations Management, Business Performance & Support, Communication, Sustainability and People & Culture.
Operations Management leads and holds together the development and maintenance of a common foundation for how we work together across the value chain, our operating model. We enable strategic movements towards the IKEA goals through the strategic landscape and work closely with all parts of the value chain to achieve them.It includes teams for business insights, capability and process development, strategy and roadmap, data and product, and technology.
Our mission in the Inter IKEA Group is to build a strong data foundation to enable the growth of IKEA. It covers, among other things, sustainability data and material data, transforming it into a trusted and democratic resource. It empowers IKEA co-workers, suppliers, and customers to make sustainable and efficient decisions across the value chain—giving us the means to understand our past, make informed decisions in the present, and simulate the future impact of different choices.
About you
You believe that creating great digital products means that they are fit for purpose and software engineering is a mean for supporting the business. You have experience in software engineering, working together with engineering leaders and other engineers.You are also curios to learn new things. As this job is an software developer job in the knowledge graph digital product area, you must have an interest in the IKEA concept, understand brand and commerciality as the graph is an enabling capability for both customer and co-worker solutions such as IKEA.com and co-worker facing learning solutions.
In addition, we expect:
- Minimum 3 years of software development experience
- Minimum 2 years Knowledge graph tech hands on experience
- Knowledge of IKEA.com, IKEA.net and eCommerce
- Experience of agile and domain driven product development
- Familiar with Node.js, Phyton, Java, Data bricks, Sparql and chyper
- Ability to encourage simplicity, efficiency, ownership and accountability
- Ability to change direction as appropriate based on new ideas, approaches, and strategies
- Ability to collaborate with others (including virtual) such as team members, stakeholders and suppliers to achieve goals
- Good ability to communicate technical concepts and processes clearly at an appropriate level to team members, stakeholders and suppliers
- Ability to understand the complexity of IKEA business and the role of technology as an integrated part of the business
- Develop, run and maintain high-quality code in the knowledge graph product using the right toolsets required in order to meet consumer expectations on the delivery
- Work in agile teams in the knowledge graph product, in a DevOps setup. “You build and you run it”.
- Apply and promote good software engineering practices, including continuous integration and delivery, within an agile/iterative development approach in order to improve time to market and fulfil business needs
- Drive change activities in different environments in order to secure functionality and availability
- Deliver tests, performance analysis, configuration management and creation of functional/feature specifications to improve the knowledge graph product and service delivery
- Continuously explore and evaluate new technologies in order to boost innovation and productivity for optimization/modifications to the current design and development productivity
- Provide support and guidance as needed to consumers and other engineers encouraging good practices
- Develop and adopting different engineering patterns in the knowledge graph product development but also in Retail Concept Operations
A few more details for you
This position is full-time (40 hours per week) and is located in Malmö, Sweden. Some travel will be required.
Please send your application – CV in English latest 6th October 2025. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why this position motivates you and what you think you could contribute with.
We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity.