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Access Group Australia is the nation''s largest privately owned fleet of access equipment, providing sales, hire, service, and transport of construction equipment - including scissors, boom lifts, telehandlers, and forklifts - across the construction, material handling, and mining sectors.Our vision is to be the most respected privately owned company in our industry. We provide the newest fleets, backed by a customer service and technical team that leads the sector in professional standards, innovation, and operational excellence.We are seeking a Technical Lead to own and evolve our ecommerce experience layer, guiding it through stabilisation, refinement, and continuous improvement. This is a hands-on leadership role within a modern composable stack, including Next.js, Builder.io, Commercetools, Algolia, Vercel, and our integration layer. You will lead a small team, set technical standards and operational practices, and help scale the platform across multiple brands.This is an office-based role, Monday to Friday, based at our Canning Vale corporate office.Frontend Architecture and Platform OwnershipYou will take end-to-end ownership of the frontend architecture and delivery of our ecommerce experience layer, ensuring it is scalable, resilient and built to evolve across multiple brands.Your focus will include:Own and evolve the Next.js codebase and frontend architectureShape the Builder.io component library, content models, and reusable design patternsDefine reliable integrations with Commercetools, Algolia, and the service busDrive performance, observability, security, and operational readiness across the frontend stackEstablish standards, documentation, and engineering practices to ensure long-term platform healthYou will work within our existing composable architecture and improve it thoughtfully over time - favouring a disciplined approach over unnecessary rewrites.Leadership and deliveryIn a player-coach capacity, you will:Lead and mentor a small offshore engineering team, fostering high standards and continuous improvementGuide technical planning, code reviews, and pairing to ensure quality and maintainabilityOwn complex technical challenges and unblock the team when neededCollaborate with UI/UX, backend, and integration teams to deliver robust, reusable patterns and clean architectureChampion disciplined delivery, QA, and operational practices to maintain a stable, scalable frontend platformOperational excellence & Platform OwnershipYou will build and maintain strong operational practices:Establish monitoring, logging and alerting to ensure a reliable frontend experienceDrive release practices using feature flags, controlled rollouts and rollback strategiesMaintain a tech-debt register and refactor roadmap, balancing improvements with deliveryLead post-incident reviews to prevent recurring issues and improve platform stabilityCollaborate with backend teams, vendors and business stakeholders to maintain clean architecture and clear trade-offsAbout YouYou arePragmatic and calm under pressure, with a focus on resultsExperienced in improving and stabilising existing systemsSkilled at coaching developers while balancing technical and business prioritiesStrong in modern frontend engineering and composable architecturesClear and structured communicator, able to explain trade-offs and influence decisionsCore technical skillsDeep expertise with Next.js, React, and TypeScriptStrong knowledge of composable / headless architecturesExperience with Builder.io or similar CMS, and Commercetools or comparable commerce APIsExpertise in web performance (Core Web Vitals), observability, and CI/CD pipelinesAbility to debug and resolve complex integration issueNice to Have: Algolia, middleware/API gateway experience, Vercel, accessibility, multi-brand architectures experienceYou will bringHands-on coding expertise in modern frontend technologiesExperience stabilising or modernising existing systems and stacksProven ability to lead and mentor a small technical teamCalm, pragmatic decision-making under pressureStrong understanding of trade-offs and incremental improvementWhy join Access GroupCompetitive salary and clear career progression opportunitiesOngoing training and professional developmentStable, growing organisation with an international footprintPositive, improvement-focused workplace cultureEmployee support programs, including wellbeing initiatives and onsite facilitiesThis is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact on a modern, multi-brand ecommerce platform within a stable and growing organisation. If you have the skills, experience, and drive to lead technically and deliver results, we want to hear from you.Access Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion and fair treatment. We strongly encourage applications from women and Indigenous candidates.Candidates must have the right to work in Australia.Be careful - Dont provide your bank or credit card details when applying for jobs. This content has been trimmed to remove site-specific prompts. #J-18808-Ljbffr