Web Engineering Tech Lead, IKEA Kreativ

Geomagical Labs is a visual AI company. We're pioneering "indoor imagination" applications for hundreds of millions of users. With our products, consumers can capture photorealistic, portable 3D models of their spaces, and decorate them with virtual furnishings from anywhere, enabling digital ecommerce of the massive home retail industry.

Founded by successful serial entrepreneurs, and located in downtown Mountain View, California, Geomagical Labs has a well-funded, multi-year roadmap, and an exclusive, strategic partnership with IKEA, the world's largest home furnishings retailer.

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 role

We have an opening for an ambitious, hands-on, web technical lead, with strong Computer Science foundations, and expert Javascript, Typescript & React Web Engineering skills, to lead our flagship web application team.

As our Web Engineering Tech Lead, you will design & engineer compelling features 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 web tech team.

• Design, build, and innovate our IKEA Kreativ 3D web apps and features --- 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.

• Expert skills with modern Javascript/Typescript languages.

• Expert skills developing within React framework.

• Fluency with Internet technologies & modern web stacks.

• 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 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.