What You'll Do
- Develop new features and improvements for the Newbook Websites product, building and maintaining custom WordPress themes, plugins, and integrations that connect operator websites to the Newbook platform and booking flows.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, documentation, technical discovery, and design work.
- Apply solid engineering fundamentals when reviewing AI-generated code, ensuring correctness, security, maintainability, and alignment with WordPress and system architecture.
- Build reliable frontend experiences with modern JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, applying React where appropriate for more interactive components.
- Integrate WordPress with the Newbook platform and third-party services via REST APIs, webhooks, and the WordPress REST API.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams when application work touches CI/CD, AWS services, deployment workflows, monitoring, or reliability concerns.
- Help reduce technical debt through thoughtful refactoring and incremental improvements to the themes, plugins, and code you work in.
- Care about performance, accessibility, SEO, and security across the customer-facing websites we ship.
- Troubleshoot internal bugs and customer-reported issues effectively, balancing speed with long-term code quality.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, support teams, and other engineers to translate business and customer needs into reliable technical solutions.
- Participate actively in collaborative development practices, including stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and technical design discussions, and contribute to technical design documents for the work you own.
- Write and maintain unit, integration, and functional tests to ensure confidence in the systems we build.
- Explore new tools, technologies, and AI-enabled workflows that can improve your productivity and the quality of what you ship.
What We're Looking For
- 3–5 years of practical software engineering experience, preferably including experience building and maintaining production web applications.
- Required: hands-on, production WordPress experience, including building and maintaining custom themes and/or plugins, working with WordPress hooks (actions and filters), the block editor, and the WordPress REST API.
- Solid development experience with PHP and MySQL, plus modern JavaScript, HTML, and CSS on the frontend. Experience with TypeScript and React is a plus.
- Experience shipping software in real-world production environments where reliability, maintainability, and customer impact matter.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, with demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools as part of a modern engineering workflow.
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools as a normal part of day-to-day engineering work.
- Strong ability to evaluate, correct, and improve AI-generated code rather than accepting outputs blindly.
- A working understanding of software architecture, debugging, testing, performance, scalability, and technical tradeoffs (including the performance, security, and SEO considerations specific to customer-facing WordPress sites).
- Some exposure to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, AWS services, serverless functions, deployment workflows, or related infrastructure tooling is helpful, but not required.
- Good problem-solving skills and the ability to break down technical challenges into clear, executable steps.
- Strong communication skills. You should be able to explain your technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical teammates through async updates, documentation, and collaborative discussion.
- A collaborative mindset and a willingness to give and receive feedback, share what you learn, and grow alongside the team.
How We Expect Engineers to Use AI
We are especially interested in engineers who treat AI as a serious engineering tool and can point to practical ways it has improved how they build software. You should be comfortable using AI to:
- Explore implementation options, compare technical tradeoffs, and help think through the recommended path forward.
- Generate first drafts of code, tests, documentation, diagrams, scripts, and migration plans.
- Debug unfamiliar systems and reason through complex code paths, including legacy WordPress themes and plugins.
- Refactor legacy code safely and incrementally.
- Improve your velocity without compromising quality.
- Validate assumptions and pressure-test technical decisions.
- Build internal tools, automation, and workflows that reduce repetitive engineering work.
- Review AI-generated work critically for correctness, maintainability, security, and product fit.
We value engineers who know when AI can accelerate the work, and when careful human judgment is required.
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