Frontend Engineering Lead

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.