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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AdTech Software Engineer - **Company:** IKEA - **Location:** San Sebastián de los Reyes, Spain - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Automation of Tests, Mobile Application Development, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Transmissions, DevOps, Digital Technology, Distributed Systems, Github, Iterative and Incremental Development, Node.Js, Pair Programming, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Tag Management, TypeScript, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Backend, Data Analytics, Api Design, Data Pipelines, Api Management, Web Api - **Published:** October 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=aee33d7e05a8317c ## About the Role Candidate profile (text) - Default language We are looking for a strong AdTech Software Engineer (Backend) to join our Marketing Acquisition Team. For this role, it's important that you are passionate about advertising technology, development, product, customer, and business. We want to see that you enjoy using technology to solve problems, not merely just to implement features. You like to have end-to-end responsibility. We are looking for missionaries, not mercenaries. We want to find engineers who are outcome focused and push themselves and the team to a higher level. From a technology perspective, we expect that you have the ability to develop high-quality code and have high-quality engineering standards. We want you to have a curious nature and actively acquire new knowledge, skills, champion new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance. We want you to learn continuously and push the team to reach our common goals., * Strong expertise on Digital Marketing and Integration with Paid Media Channels (Facebook, Instagram, Google, DSPs, YouTube etc..) * Strong software engineering experience with TypeScript and Node.js. * Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable cloud platforms. * Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub-based development workflows. * Strong understanding of API design, system integrations, and scalable distributed architectures. * Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities. * Experience designing, building, and operating production systems end to end. * Because you will be creating a new platform which involves a lot of collaborations with other teams, we expect you to be good at stakeholder management and good at integrating with other projects and external parties * Mobile app development skills are a plus, as we work on mobile-related tasks, Fluent English, both written and spoken, is essential, as English is the working language of the global platform team. ## Description As AdTech Software Engineer (Backend), your main responsibilities will include: * Development of new AdTech solutions, like focusing on data transfer to paid media channels to find lookalikes and to retarget customers or any AdTech solutions. * Stakeholder management and continuous collaboration with related teams and external parties like Facebook, Instagram, Google and other paid media channels. This consists of API integrations from other teams and helping other teams implement our platform's API's. This will be an intense collaboration which we expect you to lead * Setting up the solution and data architecture from scratch, including data pipelines, DevOps practices and native cloud components * Being responsible for the development of high quality (software) code which has been tested and is ready to be shipped * Strong data analytical skills as a part of the team working on data transfer * Handling advertising tag management and implementation on the IKEA website * Logging, alerting, tracing in the cloud * Security concepts especially around transfer of personal data * Working in agile teams in across the capability areas, contributing to the development and maintenance of products and solutions * Applying and adhere to good practice software engineering practices (e.g. DRY principles, TDD and BDD, continuous integration, automated tests, pair programming, code reviews) within an agile/iterative development approach * Providing support and guidance as needed to other developers and other teammates from other disciplines and encouraging good practices * Contributing to the continuous development of standards against which software development should take place as well as exploring and bring in new technologies to boost innovation and development productivity * Working closely together with other software engineers and cross functions to meet design requirements and ensure that digital solutions work together and fulfil business needs, Please respect that due to GDPR we cannot review any applications coming to us in other ways than through our recruitment program. Please submit with your application in English.