Join Australia's number one online furniture and homewares retailer and help define the future of our customer facing experience.
As our Storefront Frontend Lead, you will shape the technical direction of our storefront and guide the engineering approach that supports millions of customers across Australia.
This is a central role within our multi year transformation as we move from a long standing monolithic platform to a modern, high performing and scalable architecture.
What You Will Do
Own the technical direction and architecture for a multi-year migration, moving Temple & Webster from a monolithic platform to a modern, high-performing Next JS/React-based architecture at massive scale.
Guide, implement, and improve engineering standards across all storefront squads and support cross squad alignment
Partner with the Storefront Tribe Lead to co develop a roadmap that unites business goals with technical feasibility
Champion best practice in performance, accessibility, maintainability and frontend quality
Lead and provide technical oversight for X engineers across the Storefront Tribe and mentor engineers of all levels and contribute to capability uplift.
Drive the use of component based design, shared libraries and design system integration
Oversee performance optimisation, rendering strategies and frontend deployment on up-to-date tooling
Lead governance around coding standards, linting, branch strategy and CI or CD pipelines
Work closely with product, design and engineering leadership to support successful delivery and sequencing
Ensure the storefront remains modern, scalable and ahead of ecommerce innovation
What You Bring
Extensive experience architecting and leading large scale React and Next JS applications
Deep understanding of frontend performance,



server side rendering and static site generation
Strong working knowledge of TypeScript, modern JavaScript and tooling such as Webpack, Vite and Babel
Experience with Tailwind CSS or similar styling frameworks and CSS architecture
Skills in component based design, design systems and shared libraries
Familiarity with headless CMS integrations, GraphQL or REST APIs and micro frontend approaches
Solid understanding of WCAG accessibility standards and SEO best practice for ecommerce
Experience with monitoring tools such as Lighthouse, Sentry or New Relic
A background in mentoring and leading cross functional engineering teams
Confident communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders
About You
You are a strategic and forward thinking technologist who cares deeply about building robust, scalable and elegant frontend systems.
You enjoy coaching others, guiding architectural decisions and creating alignment across teams.
You communicate clearly, collaborate well and are motivated by delivering high quality customer facing experiences.
You stay curious, enjoy exploring emerging frontend trends and look for ways to innovate while keeping performance and reliability at the centre of your decisions.
Why You Will Love It Here
Hybrid working with Mondays and Fridays from home
Beautiful St Peters office with a supportive and high energy culture
Generous discounts across all furniture and homewares
Paid birthday leave and inclusive parental leave
Catered lunch three days a week and subsidised coffee from our in house barista
Free daily mindfulness practice and regular team socials
Volunteer opportunities with our charity partner
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📌 Storefront Frontend Lead (New South Wales)
🏢 Temple and Webster
📍 New South Wales