Software Engineer – Backend with AI - Range Experience

IKEA; Malmö kommun; Hybrid; SEK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

IKEA is building for the future. Range Experience aims to empower customers to design personal best home furnishing solutions using data-driven digital tools that connect products with customers.

As a software engineer on the team, you will design AI-enabled solutions for home spaces from anywhere, working hybrid with experienced colleagues, contributing to scalable, high-performing, and responsible AI experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI solutions for customer-facing apps.
• Strong communication and teamwork in agile DevOps.
• Willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI-powered design experiences for homes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions.
• Ensure AI solutions are scalable, reliable and responsible.

Skills

AI experience

English fluency

Curiosity

Collaborative mindset

Tools

TypeScript/NodeJS

LangChain

RAG

Vector search

Job description

IKEA is building for the future The goal of Range Experience is to support and empower customers to find their personal best home furnishing solutions. We run and develop digital solutions used by customers and co-workers enabling them to design homes and home furnishing solutions for the entire IKEA range. Part of our portfolio are planning solutions for Kitchens, Bathrooms, Storage solutions, Beds... Our next big step ahead will be to enable customers to design their full homes.

Job Description The goal of Range Experience is to support and empower customers to find their personal best home furnishing solutions. We run and develop digital solutions used by customers and co-workers enabling them to design homes and home furnishing solutions for the entire IKEA range. Part of our portfolio are planning solutions for Kitchens, Bathrooms, Storage solutions, Beds... Our next big step ahead will be to enable customers to design their full homes. The solutions and capabilities we develop are an integral part of the entire seamless buying and selling experience and a key contributor to converting visitors into happy customers and to engaging with our customers from the start. Utilizing data around and about our products to create more personalized experiences is an integral part of the work we do. Our end user is not only people planning their homes, from their home. We also deliver solutions to all IKEA retailers. Do you want to be part of our journey to create a better everyday life for the many people?

About The Job

As an engineer in the team, you will be part of creating solutions that enable customers to design any space of their homes or businesses from the comfort of their homes or wherever they are. You will be working towards configurate home furnishing solutions digitally, exploring and utilizing different technologies and approaches. Meet Erika Alfredsson who is working as a Lead Software Engineer: "In my role I get the opportunity to create intuitive, high-performing solutions used by people all around the world! I also get to work in an open climate, closely with colleagues that I learn from every day and with techniques that makes my everyday fun and inspiring." You will work closely together with your experienced team members and together you will maintain a high level of product delivery while working agile with a DevOps mindset. We believe a hybrid solution between the office and working remotely will create the best environment for us to be creative, productive and finding a work-life balance.

What about you?

As a person you see the joy of sharing your knowledge and experience with your colleagues' cross different teams. Being curious and innovative is at the core of everything you do, and you know that making mistakes sometimes is part of your own development and learning journey. You enjoy an agile and iterative, yet structured way of working and achieving results together with a team in a flexible environment; but also have a strong individual drive to deliver high-quality results on time. You have great communication and networking skills and are fluent in written and spoken English.

Want to build AI experiences that make a real difference?

We're looking for a software engineer who has experience of building AI solutions, who is at the forefront of AI innovation emerging technologies, with a strong focus on improving customer value.

You’ll thrive in this role if you have experience with:

• TypeScript/NodeJS
• Building MCP servers
• RAG, vector search, and knowledge retrieval
• AI frameworks such as LangChain
• Large Language Models (LLMs) and context engineering

You'll help create intelligent, conversational experiences, connect data with business value, and ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, and responsible.

Depending on the assignment there may be a need to be on-call (third line support).

If you're excited about applying AI to solve real business challenges and create great user experiences, we'd love to meet you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. If you share our values and want to make a difference, then perhaps IKEA is for you.

Additional Information

Closing date for the role will be the 3rd of September 2026.

Please also note that we only handle applications in English anddonotacceptapplications coming in by email.

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 Inter IKEA Systems Service AB, Inter IKEA Technology Services AB and Inter IKEA Systems BV, provided competence requirements are met for the role.