Intermediate Full Stack Software Engineer: Bookings

• 💻 Bring 3–5 years of full-stack engineering experience in user-facing products
• ⚙️ Build and optimise full-stack systems powering a large-scale travel platform
• 🤖 Leverage AI and automation to improve development workflows and product capabilities
• 🔁 Work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering from idea to launch
• 📍 V&A Waterfront, Cape Town (hybrid)

Lekke Slaap is South Africa’s leading accommodation booking app known for its user-friendliness, exceptional customer experience, and extensive local accommodation options. Owned by Tripco
, a travel technology company based in the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town. Lekke Slaap is committed to innovation, best-in-class customer service, and setting new standards in travel technology.

As an Intermediate
Full Stack Software Engineer at Tripco, you’ll be a part of a close-knit Product & Engineering team, building and optimising the technology that powers our products. You’ll work across the full technology stack, delivering high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions enhancing the travel booking experience for millions of users. From backend architecture to front-end performance, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring ideas to life while ensuring our systems are secure, efficient, and future‑ready.

You’ll also play an active role in leveraging AI‑driven tools and automation to improve development efficiency, optimise internal processes, and enhance product capabilities as the industry continues to evolve.

You’ll work with a diverse and modern technology ecosystem, including:

• Core Stack: Backend - PHP (Laravel), Frontend - Twig/HTML/CSS/JavaScript (React), MySQL (Maria
  
  DB), Redis, and Nginx
• Additional
  
  Languages:
  
  Python, C++, and Rust for performance‑critical and specialised microservices
• AI, Data & Automation: Active use of AI‑driven tools, automation, and data‑informed solutions to improve internal systems, development workflows, and product capabilities
• Infrastructure: Containerised apps using Hashi Corp’s Nomad, Consul, Vault, and Terraform on a self‑managed multi‑server environment.
• CI/CD: Docker and Git Hub Actions for automated builds, testing, and deployments.

• Application Development: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable and maintainable web applications across the full stack.
• Performance & Security: Optimise system performance and implement secure coding practices that meet industry standards and protect customer data.
• Code Quality: Participate in peer code reviews, maintaining high standards for maintainability, readability, and test coverage.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with product managers, designers, and other developers to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Problem Resolution: Diagnose and resolve software bugs, bottlenecks, and performance issues quickly and effectively.
• Documentation: Maintain clear, practical technical documentation that captures system context and business logic to support ongoing development and long‑term maintainability.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the continuous improvement of tools, frameworks, and practices to enhance development efficiency and product quality.
• Automation & AI Enablement: Actively identify opportunities to introduce automation and AI‑assisted solutions across the development lifecycle, from testing and deployments to internal tooling and workflows, and product features for our guests & hosts.
• Platform Independence: Develop solutions with a platform‑agnostic mindset to support long‑term scalability and flexibility.
• Product feature ownership: Take full ownership of features, and collaborate across departments to ensure successful integration.

• Collaboration: Thrives in a team environment, working efficiently across multiple disciplines and fostering a culture of shared goals.
• Problem‑solving mindset: Approaches challenges with a doer mentality, balancing analysis, planning, and hands‑on execution to deliver results.
• Adaptability: Open and eager to learn new technologies, including emerging AI and automation tools, as the tech landscape evolves.
• Urgency & ownership: Manages workload effectively, makes confident…