FullStack Engineer

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
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)

Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.

For any questions give Paulina Gutek a call on [+64 272 063431](tel:+64 272 063431) and quote Job ID: 18409 for a confidential chat.

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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