FullStack Engineer

Tribe Group; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working environment

Parking and transport subsidies

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Tribe Group in Auckland is seeking an Intermediate Fullstack Engineer to build and modernise a customer-facing booking platform used by travellers worldwide. You will join a cross-functional team and contribute to a cloud-native PHP environment and a more automated DevOps lifecycle.

The role focuses on building features across search, pricing, checkout and post-booking, plus creating RESTful APIs, performing tests, and driving CI/CD improvements while applying AI-assisted tooling where

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong production PHP experience and JS/DB basics.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance features across a customer booking platform (search, pricing, checkout and post-booking).
• Develop and maintain APIs and integrations with third-party suppliers and internal systems.
• Write clean, reliable PHP code and improve performance/stability.
• Collaborate with product to refine requirements and deliver practical solutions.
• Review systems, identify risks, and propose improvements.
• Test, debug and resolve issues to meet specs and improve customer experience.
• Advance automation, scripting and CI/CD uplift; maintain technical docs.

Skills

PHP production

JavaScript

MySQL

HTML

CSS

ReactJS

jQuery

PHPUnit

RESTful APIs

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Bash/Python scripting

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

An established, high-performing organisation in the travel sector is investing heavily in its digital platforms. This is a Intermediate Fullstack Engineer role focused on building and enhancing a customer-facing booking platform used by travellers worldwide, while modernising a cloud-native, PHP-centric environment.

You will join a talented cross-functional digital team and play a key part in moving toward a fully automated DevOps lifecycle, improving speed to market, reliability, and the overall customer booking experience. There is also genuine scope to bring in agentic AI thinking, automation and scripting to streamline engineering workflows and operational processes.

What you’ll be working on

• Build and enhance features across a customer booking platform (search, pricing, checkout and post-booking)
• Develop and maintain APIs and integrations with third-party suppliers and internal systems
• Write clean, reliable PHP code and contribute to performance and stability improvements
• Work with product and stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver practical solutions
• Help review current systems, raise risks/limitations, and contribute ideas for improvements
• Test, debug and resolve issues to meet agreed specs and improve customer experience
• Support delivery improvements through automation, scripting and CI/CD uplift (where needed)
• Keep technical documentation up to date to support smooth releases and operations

AI and Automation Focus

• Building scripts and tooling to remove repetitive manual work (build/release processes, environment tasks, operational runbooks, data fixes)
• Applying agentic AI concepts in a practical way (for example: AI-assisted internal tools, intelligent workflow automation, automated triage or operational assistants)
• Implementing AI/automation safely with good engineering practices (maintainability, observability, and appropriate controls)

What You’ll Bring

• 4+ years’ experience as a Software Developer in commercial environments
• Strong hands‑on experience with PHP in production
• Solid capability across JavaScript, MySQL, HTML and CSS
• Experience with ReactJS, jQuery and/or other JS frameworks/libraries
• Experience writing functional tests (e.g., PHPUnit)
• Strong experience building complex solutions, including from scratch where required
• Proven experience building and integrating RESTful APIs and third-party vendor integrations
• Knowledge of AWS and cloud‑native patterns
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong automation and scripting skills (e.g., Bash, Python or similar)

What's on Offer

• Hybrid, flexible working environment
• Strong culture with genuine growth opportunities
• Benefits including parking and public transport subsidies
• Work on a product with real customer impact and meaningful technical scope (platform modernisation, DevOps automation, AI-driven workflow improvements)

To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.

At the appropriate stage we will request your references.