FullStack Engineer

TribeRecruit New Zealand; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Growth opportunities

Parking and transport subsidies

Job summary

TribeRecruit New Zealand is seeking an Intermediate Fullstack Engineer to build and enhance a customer-facing booking platform. You will work on modernising a cloud-native PHP-centric environment and contribute to moving toward an automated DevOps lifecycle.

Join a cross-functional digital team and apply automation and AI concepts to streamline workflows, deliver faster time-to-market, and improve reliability and the overall customer booking experience. Hybrid working is offered.

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience as a Software Developer in commercial environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with PHP in production.
• Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs and third-party vendor integrations.
• Solid capability across JavaScript, MySQL, HTML and CSS.
• Experience with AWS, Docker and Kubernetes; scripting in Bash or Python.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance a customer-facing booking platform used by travellers worldwide.
• Modernise a cloud-native, PHP-centric environment and move toward a DevOps lifecycle.
• Develop automation and tooling to reduce repetitive manual work and enable AI-assisted workflows.

Skills

PHP production

JavaScript

MySQL

ReactJS

jQuery

RESTful APIs

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Bash

Python

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PHPUnit

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

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.

AI and Automation Focus

We’re looking for someone who can combine strong software engineering fundamentals with a modern automation mindset, including:

• 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, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.

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