Full-Stack Software Developer (Digital Services)

About the role

WBHO's Digital Services team builds and maintains an in-house digital platform that supports the business across areas such as document management, digital safety & quality forms and inspections, HR / recruitment tooling, and contract & procurement administration.

We're recruiting to replace a developer who is moving to another department. You'll join a small engineering team with genuine end-to-end ownership — helping design, build, deploy, and maintain the platform. It's a hands-on role with real autonomy.

We make active use of AI coding tools in our day-to-day workflow, and fluency with them is essential — see below.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain features across the full stack — a modern reactive JavaScript front-end and server-side back-end services.
• Work AI-first: use AI coding assistants as a core part of how you design, write, review, and ship code.
• Own features end-to-end, from design through deployment to ongoing support.
• Integrate and work with AI-driven features (conversational assistants, document intelligence, and AI-assisted recruitment tooling).
• Help run and troubleshoot production infrastructure: Linux servers, databases, automated backups / disaster recovery, and CI/CD.
• Build digital forms, inspections, and reporting tools used by internal teams.
• Treat data with care — this is a production system holding real operational and HR data; changes are deployed, tested, then released.
• Take part in code review and uphold the team's engineering standards (security, access control, data safety).

Essential skills & experience

• Demonstrable, hands-on experience using AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) as part of your day-to-day development workflow. This is a non-negotiable requirement — candidates without it will not be considered. Be ready to show how you use these tools to ship real work.
• 3+ years professional software development, ideally full-stack.
• Strong JavaScript (and ideally TypeScript).
• Solid experience with a modern component-based front-end framework (such as Vue or React) — strong skills in either are welcome.
• Back-end REST API development in Node.js or a comparable server-side stack.
• Comfortable with relational databases and writing efficient queries.
• Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Practical Linux server administration: SSH, service management, log triage, deployment.
• Good grasp of authentication, authorisation, and access control — and the discipline to treat security and production data with care.
• Self-directed: able to take a loosely-specified problem, scope it, and ship it.

Advantageous (not required)

• Experience integrating LLM / AI provider APIs into real products (embeddings & semantic search, retrieval, prompt engineering) — building AI features, not just using AI tools.
• Construction / built-environment domain exposure.
• Cloud infrastructure experience (any major provider) and backup / disaster-recovery practices.
• Container workflows (e.g. Docker).
• Data visualisation / charting and document generation (PDF / spreadsheet / Word).
• Messaging or workflow-automation integrations.
• Experience in a small team with production support responsibility.

Attributes that fit our team

• High ownership and accountability — you treat production as if it's yours.
• Bias toward doing the correct, principled thing over the quick shortcut.
• Careful and methodical with live data; thinks about impact before acting.
• Effective at directing AI tools — knows when to trust output, when to verify, and how to review AI-generated code critically.
• Clear communicator who can work directly with non-technical colleagues.
• Trustworthy with sensitive HR, project, and credential data.

Access & onboarding note

This role carries production and administrative access to critical systems. The successful candidate will go through security onboarding, including hardware-key 2FA and least-privilege credential provisioning.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance bonus
• Medical aid and retirement contributions
• Hands-on exposure
• Opportunities for career progression and professional development
• Dynamic and collaborative site working environment

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