Senior Software Engineer - Backend

👋 HEJ! (Swedish for Hi) 

IKEA is creating magical mixed-reality experiences for hundreds of millions of users, using computer vision, neural networks, graphics, and computational photography to help them reduce the “imagination gap”. IKEA Kreativ, launched in 2022, is expanding to provide best in-class tools for customers and co-workers to visualize their home design ideas with helpful and joyful 3D experiences.

We are looking for highly motivated, creative graphics engineers with entrepreneurial drive, who are excited about building novel technologies and getting them into the hands of millions if not billions of IKEA consumers!

We have an opening for a passionate Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our amazing new Home Imagination Platform (HIP) Domain at IKEA, located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This team will collaborate directly with the R&D team at Geomagical Labs (an IKEA company based in the USA), and be part of influential and cutting-edge 3D and AI technology development on a global, multi-million user scale.

In this role you will:

• Be a hands-on backend/API developer, guiding design & development of IKEA Kreativ’s platform, and systems integrations – in collaboration with the Geomagical Labs team based in California.
• Improve features, scalability, and reliability of the IKEA Kreativ platform by participating in technical & process improvements.
• Participate in scoping and designing new API features and subsystems.
• Work closely with other IKEA service teams to design, build, and develop systems that scale to millions of customers around the world, and run on multiple cloud platforms.
• Participate in healthy & effective engineering practices – conduct code reviews to ensure code & architecture quality, write and review software design documents, and drive efficient and effective test automation.
• Participate in an existing on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Excellent software engineer with strong Computer Science foundations
• 3+ years of experience with Python and Django web development
• 3+ years of experience with SQL (Postgres preferred)
• Experience with Celery or other background task runners
• Strong English communication skills, both verbal and written
• Empathetic and positive collaborator

Nice to have

• Experience with containers and container-based deployment
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with low-latency customer-facing applications
• Experience with DAG pipeline tools (Airflow, Dask)