IKEA

Platform Specialist | Backend & .NET

IKEA
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13 hours ago
Malmö, SwedenSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and evolve reusable backend capabilities and services using C# and .NET.
  • Create reference implementations, libraries, templates, APIs, and golden paths for product teams.
  • Define engineering standards for API design, security, observability, testing, resilience, and lifecycle management.
  • Work with product teams to understand use cases, simplify onboarding, and improve developer experience.
  • Bridge product-team needs with shared infrastructure and enterprise platform services while resolving technical dependencies and integrations.
  • Contribute to automation, CI/CD frameworks, monitoring, supportability, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
  • Document platform patterns, share knowledge, and help engineers adopt shared capabilities.
  • Use operational and delivery measures such as availability, lead time for change, deployment frequency, time to restore service, and change failure rate to guide improvements.

Requirements

  • Strong professional experience in backend engineering with C# and modern .NET.
  • Experience designing and building secure, reliable, and maintainable APIs, services, and system integrations.
  • Understanding of cloud-native development, containers, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and production operations.
  • Ability to turn complex engineering challenges into reusable solutions, clear standards, and practical guidance.
  • Effective communication and collaboration with engineers, platform colleagues, architects, product teams, and stakeholders.
  • Motivation to enable other teams while preserving appropriate autonomy and ownership.
  • Curiosity, sound judgment, attention to detail, and commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
  • Preferred experience includes internal developer platforms, shared libraries, engineering frameworks, self-service capabilities, Azure services, Kubernetes, API management, identity and access, infrastructure as code, coaching engineers, facilitating technical decisions, or driving adoption across multiple teams.

Benefits

  • Permanent role based in Malmö, Sweden, with the expectation of working from the office most of the time.
  • Applications are requested by 27 October at the latest.
  • Inclusive, collaborative culture with opportunities for health, wellbeing, development, and career growth.
  • Accommodation is available during the recruitment process for applicants with special needs.

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About IKEA

10,000+ employees

IKEA designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, home furnishings, and housewares to consumers through large-format stores and e-commerce. Founded in Sweden in 1943 and headquartered in Delft, Netherlands, the brand operates via a global franchise system run by Inter IKEA Systems B.V., and also develops smart-home products and services under Home Smart.

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