Temple & Webster is Australia's leading online retailer of furniture and homewares. Our mission is to make the world more beautiful, one room at a time. We apply this same vision to our employee experience, ensuring our workplace is as inspiring, thoughtful, and high-impact as the homes we help our customers create.
About the Team & the Role
As
Principal Frontend Engineer
, you will sit at the top of our individual-contributor track to shape our technical direction while remaining deeply hands-on in the codebase. You will provide hands-on technical leadership to help shape the next generation of our greenfield Next.js e-commerce storefront. Acting as the technical authority across squads, you'll define our frontend architecture, engineering standards, and co-own the technical roadmap for the storefront.
In this role, you will also help pioneer AI-native software engineering in practice - exploring agentic development workflows across the engineering lifecycle to meaningfully lift velocity, code quality, and maintainability.
What You'll Do
Technical Leadership & Ownership:
Act as the primary escalation point for complex frontend challenges and take ownership of the frontend architecture, patterns, and long-term technical health.
Architecture & Performance:
Co-own the storefront roadmap, balancing rapid iteration for e-commerce experimentation with Next.js platform performance (SSR, SSG, ISR, App Router, Core Web Vitals).
AI & Agentic Innovation:
Drive adoption of agentic and AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) responsibly across engineering workflows.
Quality & Standards:
Establish and enforce best practice CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), testing disciplines (unit, integration, E2E), linting, and WCAG accessibility standards.
Mentorship & Collaboration:




Mentor senior and mid-level engineers to raise the bar on code quality, while clearly communicating architectural trade-offs to both technical and commercial stakeholders.
What You Already Have
Deep React/Next.js Expertise:
Proven experience architecting and building complex Next.js/React applications at scale in high-traffic e-commerce environments.
Performance & Observability Focus:
Strong command of web performance optimisation and experience using monitoring tools like DataDog or Sentry to diagnose issues at scale.
AI-Assisted Workflows:
Hands-on experience with agentic development tools and a transparent vision for integrating AI into modern engineering workflows.
Commercial & Data-Driven Mindset:
Understanding of how client-facing technical decisions impact conversion, site speed, and overall customer experience.
What's in It for You
Drive high-impact architectural decisions on a greenfield e-commerce platform using modern Next.js stack and server components.
Pioneer AI-native development practices in a top-tier Australian e-commerce engineering org.
Benefits & Culture
Embracing Culture:
Be part of an inclusive, warm, and high-energy culture where our values drive how we work.
Exclusive Discounts:
Enjoy generous employee discounts across our entire furniture and homewares range.
Hybrid Work:
Flexible working arrangements balancing work-from-home with time at our St Peters HQ.
Lunch On Us:
Catered lunches three days a week and subsidised coffee with our in-house barista.
Celebrate You:
Enjoy paid leave on your birthday!
Family-Friendly:
Access to paid parental leave to support you through significant life events.
Mindful Moments:
Daily mindfulness practices in our dedicated wellness room.
Social & Community:
Celebrate with regular events organised by our Ministry of Fun, or give back through volunteer leave with our charity partners.
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📌 Principal Frontend Engineer - Storefront (New South Wales)
🏢 Temple and Webster
📍 New South Wales