Lead a web application team to design, build, and innovate IKEA Kreativ 3D web apps and features, while solving complex technical challenges.
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 roleWe 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.
Top Skills
JavaScript
React
Typescript
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