Full Stack Software Engineer

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 a 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 (MariaDB), 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.

Behavioural competencies

• Collaboration: Thrives in a team environment, working efficiently across multiple…