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 Ownership
You 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 architecture
* Shape the Builder.io component library, content models, and reusable design patterns
* Define reliable integrations with Commercetools, Algolia, and the service bus
* Drive performance, observability, security, and operational readiness across the frontend stack
* Establish standards, documentation, and engineering practices to ensure long-term platform health
You will work within our existing composable architecture and improve it thoughtfully over time - favouring a disciplined approach over unnecessary rewrites.
Leadership and delivery
In a player-coach capacity, you will:
* Lead and mentor a small offshore engineering team, fostering high standards and continuous improvement
* Guide technical planning, code reviews, and pairing to ensure quality and maintainability
* Own complex technical challenges and unblock the team when needed
* Collaborate with UI/UX, backend, and integration teams to deliver robust, reusable patterns and clean architecture
* Champion disciplined delivery, QA, and operational practices to maintain a stable, scalable frontend platform
Operational excellence & Platform Ownership
* You will build and maintain strong operational practices:
* Establish monitoring, logging and alerting to ensure a reliable frontend experience
* Drive release practices using feature flags, controlled rollouts and rollback strategies
* Maintain a tech-debt register and refactor roadmap, balancing improvements with delivery
* Lead post-incident reviews to prevent recurring issues and improve platform stability
* Collaborate with backend teams, vendors and business stakeholders to maintain clean architecture and clear trade-offs
About You
You are
* Pragmatic and calm under pressure, with a focus on results
* Experienced in improving and stabilising existing systems
* Skilled at coaching developers while balancing technical and business priorities
* Strong in modern frontend engineering and composable architectures
* Clear and structured communicator, able to explain trade-offs and influence decisions
Core technical skills
* Deep expertise with Next.js, React, and TypeScript
* Strong knowledge of composable / headless architectures
* Experience with Builder.io or similar CMS, and Commercetools or comparable commerce APIs
* Expertise in web performance (Core Web Vitals), observability, and CI/CD pipelines
* Ability to debug and resolve complex integration issue
* Nice to Have: Algolia, middleware/API gateway experience, Vercel, accessibility, multi-brand architectures experience
You will bring
* Hands-on coding expertise in modern frontend technologies
* Experience stabilising or modernising existing systems and stacks
* Proven ability to lead and mentor a small technical team
* Calm, pragmatic decision-making under pressure
* Strong understanding of trade-offs and incremental improvement
Why join Access Group
* Competitive salary and clear career progression opportunities
* Ongoing training and professional development
* Stable, growing organisation with an international footprint
* Positive, improvement-focused workplace culture
* Employee support programs, including wellbeing initiatives and onsite facilities
This 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.
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