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. 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.