Web Frontend Lead Engineer, IKEA Kreativ

Geomagical Labs builds and operates the pioneering IKEA Kreativ 3D AI app, used by tens of millions of people, in partnership with IKEA.

About The Role

We have an opening for an ambitious, hands-on, front-end web technical lead, with strong Computer Science foundations, and expert Javascript, Typescript & React Web Engineering skills, to build magical UX features, and lead our flagship web application team.

As our Web Engineering Tech Lead, you will design & engineer compelling experiences and smart architectures --- linking the UI, 3D engine, AI pipelines, and cloud microservices.

In this role you will be expected to:

• Be the ambitious tech leader of a 5 person global web tech team
• Design, build, and innovate magical UX features for our IKEA Kreativ 3D web apps --- making them successful and loved by customers
• Be the go-to expert for challenging front-end tech issues
• Make awesome software, and make your team more awesome
• Promote wise practices, leading to stability & velocity
• Reliably coordinate roadmaps with distributed tech teams
• Work closely with IKEA for an integrated IKEA experience
• Drive Geomagical's cultural values & leadership principles
  
  
  

Requirements

• Strong foundations in Computer Science - degree from competitive university a bonus
• Expert skills with modern Javascript/Typescript languages in React framework
• Mastery of Internet technologies & modern web stacks
• Experience with tracking, debugging & performance optimization
• 5 years engineering full-stack codebases live in production
• Success guiding 3 person tech teams for important projects
• Proven success solving complex systems engineering problems
• Familiar with best practices of web devops, CI/CD and QA
• USA resident can adjust calendar for meetings with Europe
• BONUS: Experience building consumer internet apps desired
• BONUS: Experience programming 3D graphics technologies
• BONUS: Startup experience preferred
  
  
  

Benefits

• Big role --- Highly-visible product used by tens of millions
• Interesting technology --- Convergence of mass-scale product usage, lovable UI, hybrid client-cloud architecture, modern 3D graphics, and breakthrough visual AI
• Noteworthy team --- Opportunity to work in a dynamic team of successful serial entrepreneurs, engineers, computer vision & AI researchers, and graphics engineers
• Flexible location --- Our team is distributed globally, any nearby timezone is great as long as you are a USA resident, and can overlap with both US Pacific and Europe CET work hours for meetings as needed. Eastern Time is preferred
• Good benefits --- USA salary ranges from $180,000 to $220,000 (determined by location, skill, and experience), plus annual performance bonus, based on team & company OKRs. Excellent health and retirement benefits