Senior Web Engineering Tech Lead, IKEA Kreativ

Geomagical Labs develops 3D+AI “home imagination” experiences, used by tens of millions of consumers around the world, in partnership with IKEA.

Our pioneering IKEA Kreativ app lets customers visually scan photorealistic models of their spaces using proprietary visual AI tech, reimagine their spaces in life-like 3D, and purchase their design ideas from IKEA on web and native mobile apps - online and in-store.

About the role

We have an opening for a Senior Web Technical Lead with strong Javascript/Typescript Engineering skills, and strong Computer Science foundations, to lead our flagship web application development team.

In this role, you will architect, implement, and optimize consumer-facing 3D web applications. You will develop a high-performance architecture, APIs, and features interfacing between the user, the 3D graphics engine, and our microservices cloud platform.  You will be the trusted, go-to person to solve our most important front-end technical challenges, drive technical roadmaps, and strengthen development processes that the rest of the team can build on.  

You will be the captain and can-do champion of our distributed web engineering team – coaching and motivating the team to excellence.  You will lead the web engineering team to continually improving products, code bases, processes and practices - leading to customer success, efficiency, performance, and commercial success. In this role you will:

• Be a hands-on technical lead for a team of 3-5 web engineers, guiding design & development of consumer-facing features, web architectures, backend APIs, and other technologies.
• Develop & improve IKEA Kreativ web feature capabilities, making them successful and loved by customers, and wisely engineered, maintainable, and scalable).  Success is measured in our business results with happy & successful customers, and increasing commercial outcomes.
• Reliably coordinate complex technology roadmaps with a distributed development team and our partners at IKEA.
• Be a trusted partner to your stakeholders: your product manager & designers, company leadership, and your partners at IKEA.
• Drive audience growth with seamless customer journeys: Work closely with IKEA service teams to design, build, and develop an integrated IKEA customer experience - both online & in-store.
• Design and promote healthy & effective engineering practices in the team: Conduct code reviews to ensure code & architecture quality, write and review software design documents, and drive efficient and effective test automation.
• Build and nurture a high-performance and high-energy team, which builds awesome things, in a culture based on Geomagical’s cultural values & leadership principles.

• Strong foundations in Computer Science and software engineering.
• Fluency with Internet web technologies and modern full-stack Web Application tech stacks.
• Expert in modern Javascript/Typescript frontend development and React frameworks.
• 5+ years experience engineering substantial web full-stack codebases live in production.
• Demonstrated success solving complex systems engineering design problems.
• Familiar with best practices of web devops and QA for effective & efficient testing.
• Experience with consumer internet applications is strongly desired.
• Track record of success leading small teams for important projects.
• Able to adjust calendar for meetings with Europe (Eastern Time location preferred).
• Appreciation for consumer experience and visual aesthetics preferred.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced distributed engineering environment.  Startup experience preferred.
• BONUS: Experience programming 3D graphics technologies.
• BONUS: Experience building consumer retail e-commerce applications.

• The USA base salary ranges from $180,000 to $220,000, determined by location, skill, and experience level.
• In addition to base salary, we incentivize via an annual performance bonus, based on team and company OKR success.
• Excellent health and retirement benefits. Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Strong people-first culture with generous PTO, a focus on improving each other, and an actively shaped team culture to ensure a happy and healthy working environment for all.
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic team of successful serial entrepreneurs, software developers, computer vision & AI researchers, and graphics engineers.
• The ability to build products and features from the ground up and put them into the hands of millions of people around the world.
• Headquarters located in downtown Palo Alto, California --- an easy walk from restaurants, coffee shops, and Caltrain commuter rail.
• Location is flexible - our team is distributed globally, any nearby timezone is great as long as you have regular internet access and can overlap with US Pacific and Europe CET work hours for meetings as needed.