IKEA

Platform Specialist | Backend & .NET

IKEA
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5 hours ago
Malmö, SwedenSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and evolve reusable backend capabilities and services using .NET and C#.
  • Create reference implementations, libraries, templates, and APIs for product-team adoption.
  • 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 CI/CD frameworks, automation, monitoring, supportability, and operational readiness.
  • Document platform setups and patterns, share knowledge, and help engineers use shared capabilities confidently.
  • Use operational and delivery measures to guide platform 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, 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.
  • Experience with internal developer platforms, shared libraries, engineering frameworks, or self-service capabilities is a plus.
  • Experience with Azure services, Kubernetes, API management, identity and access, or infrastructure as code is a plus.
  • Experience coaching engineers, facilitating technical decisions, or driving adoption across multiple teams is a plus.

Benefits

  • Permanent role based in Malmö, Sweden.
  • Office-based work is required, with most work expected to take place in the workplace.
  • Health, wellbeing, and development-focused benefits.
  • Inclusive, collaborative culture with opportunities to work across roles, departments, and countries.
  • Application deadline is 25 October.

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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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