Axfood operates Sweden's largest grocery ecosystem (13,000+ employees across Willys, Hemköp, Tempo, and B2B wholesale), currently executing a technical modernization away from SAP monolith toward AWS-native data pipelines and real-time analytics. The tech stack reveals a data-engineering pivot: Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, and Lake Formation sit alongside consumer-facing React/React Native work, while active hiring skews toward senior engineers and data specialists—signaling a multi-year migration toward cloud infrastructure and AI-driven supply-chain optimization.
Axfood is a public grocery group headquartered in Stockholm operating five consumer-facing store chains (Willys, Hemköp, Tempo, Handlar'n, Matöppet), a B2B wholesale division (Snabbgross), and a supply-chain backbone (Dagab) that owns product development, purchasing, and logistics. The company also operates Urban Deli and holds stakes in Apohem, Eurocash, and City Gross. Revenue flows through retail, e-commerce, and wholesale channels; operational complexity runs across merchandising (private labels: Garant, Eldorado, Minstingen), supply-chain logistics, and store networks. Axfood employs over 13,000 people across Sweden.
Axfood runs SAP (including SAP FICO) as legacy core, AWS services (Lambda, Fargate, Glue, SQS, DynamoDB, Lake Formation) for cloud workloads, Java and Python for application development, Apache Spark and Airflow for data orchestration, React and React Native for web and mobile commerce, and DuckDB and Apache Iceberg for analytics.
Current projects include React Native e-commerce app development, a new application and technology strategy, real-time integrated analytics, product assortment optimization, route planning, and generative AI solutions such as chatbots and agents.
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