A day in your life with us
Come build the systems that power IKEA's global operations.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a high-impact Product Engineering group responsible for a portfolio of mission-critical microservices supporting IKEA's global sourcing, billing, settlement, and master data platforms.
This isn't a single-product role. You'll work across a diverse ecosystem of services and domains, handling modern stacks, event-driven architectures, complex business logic, and cloud-native deployments on GCP and AliCloud. If you thrive in technically deep environments and enjoy solving real-world scale challenges, this role is for you.
You'll rotate across systems including:
- TypeScript/Node.js REST APIs managing complex global pricing structures
- Java 21 + Quarkus event-driven services using Hexagonal Architecture and DDD
- NestJS 11.x microservices with PostgreSQL, HATEOAS, and OpenAPI-first design
- Java/Quarkus DMN-based rules engines (Kogito) for dynamic pricing
- Cloud-native pipelines using GCP Pub/Sub, Apache Camel, and Solace
- Kotlin/Quarkus event-driven microservices processing warehouse events
- Angular + NestJS full-stack apps in an Nx monorepo deployed on Cloud Run
A defining characteristic of our team is agentic coding practices. You'll collaborate with AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude) to accelerate development while maintaining high standards of architecture, testing, and production quality.
Why we will love you
We're looking for a senior engineer with deep experience building and operating distributed systems. You bring strong architectural judgment, hands-on coding ability, and confidence to work across services and domains in a business-critical environment.
You bring:
- 5+ years designing, building, and maintaining microservices in production
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript (Node.js/NestJS) and Java/Kotlin (ideally Quarkus)
- Experience implementing complex business logic in pricing, billing, settlement, or other rules-heavy domains
- Solid understanding of API design and contract governance (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI), including versioning and backward compatibility
- Proven experience writing comprehensive automated tests (unit, integration, E2E)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions)
- Experience deploying and operating cloud-native services on GCP or equivalent
- Understanding of observability in distributed systems: logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
- Comfort with event-driven architectures and designing for scalability and reliability
- Experience collaborating with AI coding assistants while maintaining code quality
This role requires technical depth and adaptability, you should be comfortable moving between services, domains, and technologies while maintaining engineering discipline.
Together as a team
You'll design, build, and maintain microservices across TypeScript and Java/Kotlin stacks, handling complex pricing, billing, settlement, and cost control domains. You'll define and enforce clear API contracts, maintain high-quality test suites, optimise CI/CD pipelines, deploy and operate cloud-native services, and ensure production-grade observability. Daily collaboration with AI tools will help accelerate development while maintaining high standards of code quality, architecture, and operational excellence.
Apply now!
This role is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
We look forward to receiving your application in English. Please note that we review applications continuously and cannot accept applications via email