Frontend Engineering Lead

Geomagical Labs inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 170,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Comprehensive benefits

Life and disability insurance

Generous PTO

Retirement plan

Job summary

Geomagical Labs inc. is seeking a Frontend Engineering Lead to shape the IKEA Kreativ web experience. You will lead hands-on frontend work, mentor engineers, and drive architecture for scalable, customer-facing features used by millions.

Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering across distributed teams in a remote-first setup. The role offers a competitive salary and a chance to influence the future of IKEA's online experiences.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

HTML

CSS

Frontend architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

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.
  

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.

• 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.