Senior Software Engineer - API Catalog

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Event Messaging (Platform as a Product) team at IKEA, you will play a crucial role in unlocking the full value of event-driven architecture and providing a cohesive, personalized experience to IKEA customers through modern and intuitive platforms. You will primarily be focused on the Web/Event API Catalog platform, which serves as a central source of truth for API specifications across IKEA. **Key Responsibilities:** - Be accountable for delivering high-quality software quickly, reliably, and safely to production, ensuring a positive customer impact and experience - Collaborate within agile teams and across capability areas, contributing to the development and maintenance of products and solutions - Apply good software engineering practices within an agile/iterative development approach, including DRY principles, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, automated tests, pair programming, and clean code practices - Provide support and guidance to other developers, fostering an environment based on psychological safety - Contribute to the continuous development of standards for software development, explore and introduce new technologies and tools to drive innovation and development productivity - Work closely with software engineers and cross-functional teams to produce design specifications that meet business needs - Mentor junior software engineers and facilitate their growth - Conduct product discovery activities, such as experiments, customer outreach, and regular town halls **Qualifications Required:** - 7+ years of experience as a passionate engineer with a focus on frontend applications - Advanced training in computer science or similar experience - Proficiency in React 18, Angular 17, reactive programming, and asynchronous programming - Experience with CSS preprocessors like Tailwind CSS and JSS - Knowledge of GIT, Jenkins, Dockers, Event Driven Architecture, OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Provider (GCP), collaborative tools like Jira, Confluence, Git issues, CI/CD tools like Github actions, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP Cloud Run, end-to-end testing with Cypress and frontend test frameworks, and application security,