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.