Platform Specialist | Backend & .NET

IKEA; Malmö kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

IKEA Malmö is seeking a Platform Specialist to turn recurring backend needs into reusable platform capabilities and golden paths. You’ll work with Range Technology Foundation to build secure, scalable services and provide tooling that helps product teams adopt fast and safely.

You’ll design, implement and document reusable backend components, APIs, and patterns, collaborating across engineers, architects and product teams to improve onboarding and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with C# and modern .NET.
• Skilled in designing secure, reliable APIs and integrations.
• Knowledge of cloud-native development, containers, CI/CD, testing, observability.
• Ability turn complex engineering challenges into reusable solutions and standards.
• Excellent communication with engineers, architects, product teams, stakeholders.
• Motivated by enablement and autonomy for teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve reusable backend capabilities with .NET and C#.
• Create reference implementations, libraries, templates and APIs for product teams.
• Shape API design, security, observability, testing and lifecycle standards.
• Work with product teams to simplify onboarding and improve developer experience.
• Bridge product needs with shared infrastructure and enterprise services.
• Contribute to CI/CD, automation and operational readiness.
• Document platform setups and patterns for engineers.
• Use metrics to guide improvements like lead time and deployment frequency.

Skills

C# & .NET backend

API design & integrations

Cloud-native development

CI/CD & automation

Observability & operations

Communication & collaboration

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

API Management

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Hej Platform Specialist, Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions?

Job Description

Hej Platform Specialist, Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions? With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, discover new tech possibilites, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Platform Specialist, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

Your new job

We’re looking for a Platform Specialist with strong backend and .NET expertise who wants to solve complex, real-world engineering challenges and make product teams more effective. You will join Range Technology Foundation, where we create horizontal capabilities, reusable services, frameworks, automation and guidance that help teams build and operate secure, compliant and reliable digital products. Your primary focus will be turning recurring backend needs into well-designed platform capabilities and attractive golden paths that are easier, safer and faster to adopt than building from scratch.

• On a typical day, you will:
• Design, build and evolve reusable backend capabilities and services using .NET and C#.
• Create reference implementations, libraries, templates and APIs that product teams can adopt with low friction.
• Shape engineering standards for API design, security, observability, testing, resilience and lifecycle management.
• Work hands-on with product teams to understand use cases, simplify onboarding and improve developer experience.
• Bridge product-team needs with shared infrastructure and enterprise platform services, resolving technical dependencies and integration challenges.
• Contribute to CI/CD frameworks, automation and operational readiness, including monitoring, supportability and continuous improvement.
• Document platform setups and patterns, share knowledge and help engineers build confidence in the capabilities we provide.
• Use measures such as adoption, availability, lead time for change, deployment frequency, time to restore service and change failure rate to guide improvements.

Qualifications

What we’d like you to bring to the table

The Role As a Platform Specialist Requires You To

• Have strong professional experience in backend engineering with C# and modern .NET.
• Be skilled in designing and building secure, reliable and maintainable APIs, services and system integrations.
• Understand cloud-native development, containers, CI/CD, automated testing, observability and production operations.
• Turn complex engineering challenges into reusable solutions, clear standards and practical guidance.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with engineers, platform colleagues, architects, product teams and stakeholders.
• Be motivated by enablement: helping other teams move faster while retaining appropriate autonomy and ownership.
• Bring curiosity, sound judgement, attention to detail and a drive for continuous learning and improvement.

It’s a Plus If You Also

• Have experience building internal developer platforms, shared libraries, engineering frameworks or self-service capabilities.
• Have worked with Azure services, Kubernetes, API management, identity and access, or infrastructure as code.
• Have experience coaching engineers, facilitating technical decisions or driving adoption across several teams.

Additional Information

Be yourself, a Platform Specialist, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.

Range Technology Foundation builds the horizontal engineering foundation used across Range. We work openly and collaboratively to reduce repeated technical work, simplify complexity and turn shared enterprise capabilities into practical patterns and services that product teams can consume.

Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co-worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down to earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow. Make us the home of your career.

This is a permanent role based in Malmö; hence, you need to be based in Sweden and be able to work from the office. We believe that your presence with the team and working most of the time in the workplace are important.

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Vera Bendz, Recruiter, at [e-mail]. If you have questions about the role, please contact Daniel Svensson, [e-mail].

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, or what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers’ dreams and needs.

If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.

We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organisational changes. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in IKEA of Sweden and Inter IKEA Technology Services AB, provided competence requirements are met for the role.