Frontend Engineering Lead

Job description

At Geomagical Labs, we're building IKEA Kreativ—the AI-powered home imagination experience that helps millions of IKEA customers visualize, redesign, and furnish their homes using cutting-edge 3D, computer vision, and spatial computing. We're looking for a Frontend Engineering Lead to help shape the future of our flagship web platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, influencing architecture, mentoring teammates and delivering exceptional customer experiences at global scale. What you'll do

- Lead the technical design and development of the IKEA Kreativ web experience, delivering high-quality, customer-focused features used by millions of IKEA customers.

- Architect scalable frontend solutions using modern JavaScript, TypeScript, React, APIs, and cloud technologies.

- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to translate product vision into elegant, high-performing technical solutions.

- Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design discussions, code reviews, and mentoring, helping elevate engineering quality and team effectiveness.

- Collaborate across distributed teams and with IKEA partners to drive technical roadmaps and deliver seamless omnichannel customer experiences.

- Champion engineering excellence through thoughtful architecture, automated testing, documentation, and continuous improvement.

- Foster a collaborative engineering culture built on curiosity, ownership, innovation, and customer focus.

Requirements What we're looking for

- 7+ years of professional experience building and shipping modern web applications in production.

- Strong Computer Science foundations and software engineering principles.

- Expert-level experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS.

- Deep understanding of modern frontend architecture, APIs, cloud platforms, and scalable distributed systems.

- Proven experience leading technical initiatives, influencing architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers.

- Demonstrated success solving complex systems design and engineering challenges.

- Experience building consumer-facing products at scale.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams.

- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, remote-first engineering environment.

Nice to have

- Experience with Google Cloud Platform.

- Experience with 3D graphics, WebGL, or visualization technologies.

- Experience building retail or e-commerce applications.

- Familiarity with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.

- Startup or high-growth technology experience.

Why join us?

- Build cutting-edge AI, 3D, and spatial computing experiences that are transforming how millions of people imagine their homes. Lead the technical direction of a flagship product within the IKEA ecosystem.

- Join a remote-first engineering organization that values autonomy, collaboration, craftsmanship, and continuous learning.

- Work alongside exceptional engineers, AI researchers, designers, and graphics specialists solving challenging technical problems.

- Help shape products used by millions of IKEA customers around the world.

- Grow your technical leadership while influencing the future of IKEA Kreativ and mentoring the next generation of engineers.

Benefits

- Join a fully remote team, with this role open to people living in Canada.

- Comprehensive health, dental and vision benefits, plus mental health support and virtual care.

- The annual base salary for this full-time position ranges from CAD 170,000 to CAD 215,000, depending on location, role, skills and experience.

- Life and disability insurance.

- Generous PTO policy, including paid vacation, sick leave and holidays.

- Retirement savings plan with employer contributions based on tenure.