Software Engineer – Game Engine| IKEA Range Experience (REX)

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.    

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.   

What about the team? 

We provide one of the fundamental building-blocks our 3D planners (see the links below) use to enable our customers to see how different pieces of furniture will fit and look inside their homes before they make a purchase: the snapping engine, which interprets business rules for how pieces of furniture can be positioned, moved and connected together. Planners built with our snapping engine are used by aprox. 10m people per month in 53 countries. Using a mix of Kotlin and TypeScript, we solve hard logic problems in a real-time 3D environment. 

We come from a wide variety of software disciplines, from frontend web development to simulation and game development, but we share an interest in linear algebra and solving complex logical problems with code. We are dedicated to delivering a robust and high-quality product, grounded in thorough automated testing. Through cross-team collaboration, we share our expertise throughout the entire Range Experience ecosystem, contributing code and knowledge to a wide variety of codebases. On our bi-weekly innovation days, we keep things fresh by consistently investing time in experimentation and coming up with ideas to make our planners even better, many of which are available to users today. 

Some of Range Experience’s planners: 

• https://www.ikea.com/addon-app/storageone/pax/web/latest/se/sv/#/ 
• https://www.ikea.com/addon-app/space/platform/latest/se/sv/#/room/bedroom 

We could be teammates if you are experienced with some of the following:   

• Experience with game engines, or development of other real-time 3D applications 
• Entity-Component-System (ECS) Architecture 
• Kotlin/Java/TypeScript/C# 
• Linear algebra and 3D math 

Is this the challenge for 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.  

For this position we are interviewing continuously so please don’t delay with your application in English and don’t forget the cover letter.