Lead Frontend (JavaScript/TypeScript & React) Engineer

Latin America - Remote

Explore the Nortal Experience!

🌐 Join our close-knit LATAM remote team: Connect through fun activities like coffee breaks, tech talks, and games with your team-mates and management.

🍃 Say goodbye to micromanagement! We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values.

⚖️Your well-being matters: Our People Care team is here from day one to support you with everything from time-off requests to wellness check-ins.

Plus, our Accounts Management team ensures smooth, effective client relationships, so you can focus on what you do best.

About the Position

Ready to grow with us? 🚀

Here’s what we offer you by joining us!

✨ Competitive USD salary 💲 – We value your skills and contributions!

🌐 100% remote work 🏢 – While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM!

💼 Paid time off – Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations, all while receiving your full salary. Rest, recharge, and come back stronger!

🎉 National Holidays celebrated 🌴 – Take time off to celebrate important events and traditions with loved ones, fully embracing your culture.

😷 Sick leave – Focus on your health without the stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better.

💸 Refundable Annual Credit – Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance!

🤝 Team-building activities – Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community.

🥳 Birthday day off 🎂 – Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family!

About the Project

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 a global scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and optimize consumer-facing 3D web applications.
• Develop high-performance architectures, APIs, and features interfacing between users, the 3D graphics engine, and our microservices cloud platform.
• Be the trusted technical leader solving complex frontend challenges, driving technical roadmaps, and strengthening the engineering foundations the team builds upon.
• 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.
• Experience with consumer internet applications is strongly desired.
• 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.
• 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.

What to Expect from Our Hiring Process

1. Let’s chat about your experience!
2. Impress our recruiters, and you’ll move on to a technical interview with our top developers.
3. Nail that, and you’ll meet our client - your final step to joining our amazing team!

🎯 At Nortal, we’re dedicated to solving complex business challenges through cutting-edge technology and we believe in the power of tailored solutions. Whether you are passionate about transforming businesses with Generative AI, building innovative software products, or implementing comprehensive enterprise platform solutions, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team!

We would love to hear from you if you are eager to make an impact and join a collaborative team that values creativity and expertise.

Let’s work together to shape the future of technology!

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