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(1425) Lead Frontend (JavaScript/TypeScript & React) Engineer - Work from Home
Nortal
WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- Competitive USD salary
- 8+ years experience required
- 100% remote work
- Advanced English Level required
Role overview
Join the team behind IKEA Kreativ, an innovative 3D home design platform used by millions of customers worldwide. As a Senior Web Engineering Tech Lead, you'll lead the development of highly interactive 3D web experiences, helping shape a product that combines spatial computing, 3D graphics, e-commerce, and consumer technology at global scale. In this role, you will architect, implement, and optimize consumer-facing 3D web applications. You will develop high-performance architectures, APIs, and features interfacing between users, the 3D graphics engine, and our microservices cloud platform. You will be the trusted technical leader solving complex frontend challenges, driving technical roadmaps, and strengthening the engineering foundations the team builds upon.
Responsibilities
- 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 web feature capabilities, making them successful and loved by customers, and wisely engineered, maintainable, and scalable).
- Reliably coordinate complex technology roadmaps with a distributed development team and our partners.
- Be a trusted partner to your stakeholders: your product manager & designers, company leadership, and your external partners.
- Drive audience growth with seamless customer journeys: Work closely with service teams to design, build, and develop an integrated 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.
Requirements
- 8+ Years of engineering substantial full-stack web codebases live in production, including ownership of systems at scale.
- 7+ Years of hands-on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontend development and React (or equivalent component frameworks), with deep expertise in state management, performance optimization, and component architecture.
- 5+ Years designing and shipping complex distributed systems, including API design, microservices integration, and performance-critical architectures.
- Strong foundations in Computer Science and software engineering.
- Fluency with Internet web technologies and modern full-stack Web Application tech stacks.
- Familiar with best practices of web DevOps and QA for effective & efficient testing.
- Able to adjust calendar for meetings with Europe (Eastern Time location preferred).
- Comfortable in a fast-paced distributed engineering environment.
- Advanced English Level is required for this role, as you will work with US clients. Effective communication in English is essential to deliver the best solutions to our clients and expand your horizons.
Nice to have
- Experience with consumer internet applications is strongly desired.
- Appreciation for consumer experience and visual aesthetics preferred
- Startup experience preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive USD salary
- 100% remote work (with access to coworking spaces across LATAM)
- Paid time off according to your country’s regulations, while receiving your full salary
- National Holidays celebrated
- Sick leave
- Refundable Annual Credit to enhance work-life balance
- Team-building activities (coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings)
- Birthday day off during your birthday week
Additional details
- Close-knit LATAM remote team environment with activities like coffee breaks, tech talks, and games.
- Core values: autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity (no micromanagement).
- People Care team support for time-off requests and wellness check-ins.
- Accounts Management team handles client relationships.
- Hiring process: 1. Experience chat, 2. Technical interview with developers, 3. Client interview.
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