Graduate / Junior Full-Stack Web Developer - permanent paid position remote work

Remote – Australia | Part-time – approximately 3 days per week

Grey Nomads Jobs is an established Australian employment and community platform serving the Grey Nomad market.

We are embarking on a significant redevelopment of our technology platform and are looking for a Graduate or Junior Full-Stack Web Developer who would like the opportunity to help build something substantial from the ground up.

This is not simply a website maintenance role.

Our existing platform is WordPress-based, but our future system is expected to move towards a more purpose-built web application capable of supporting employment matching, member and employer profiles, automated notifications, payments, travel planning, data management and future AI-based services.

You will work under the guidance of an experienced IT developer/technical adviser who will provide technical direction, architecture guidance and supervision.

We are particularly interested in someone at the beginning of their IT career who has strong fundamentals, enjoys solving problems and wants the opportunity to develop their skills while working on a genuine commercial project.

The new Grey Nomads Jobs platform is expected to include:

• Job advertising and job-search functionality
• Individual member profiles and employer/business accounts
• Skills, qualifications and employment-preference profiles
• Intelligent matching between workers and employment opportunities
• Email, SMS and other automated alerts and notifications
• Member travel plans and location/date-based matching
• Membership and subscription systems
• Online payment integration
• CRM and email-marketing integration
• Secure databases and administration systems
• External API integrations
• AI-assisted search, matching and member services
• Future conversational and voice-based functionality
• Reporting, analytics and business-management tools
• Mobile-friendly web application functionality

You don't need to be an expert in everything listed below. We are looking for good technical foundations and someone capable of learning quickly.

Ideally, you will have recently completed, or be close to completing, a qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Web Development or a related discipline.

Useful skills or experience include:

• JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Modern front-end development such as React, Next.js or similar
• Back-end application development
• PHP, Node.js, Python or similar server-side technologies
• HTML and CSS
• SQL and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
• REST APIs and third-party system integrations
• Git/GitHub and version control
• Authentication, user accounts and permissions
• Basic understanding of cloud hosting and deployment
• Website and application security fundamentals
• Responsive/mobile-first development
• Testing, debugging and documentation
• An interest in AI, automation and large-language-model/API integration

Experience with WordPress would be useful because our existing system uses WordPress, but this is not primarily a WordPress development position.

We are more interested in finding someone who can help us build the right long-term platform.

This could be an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate or junior developer with approximately 0–2 years of commercial experience who wants more responsibility than they might receive in a large graduate program.

You should be:

• Curious and willing to learn
• Comfortable working independently from home
• Able to follow technical specifications and ask questions when necessary
• A logical problem solver
• Reliable and organised
• Comfortable having your work reviewed by a senior developer
• Interested in using AI tools to improve development productivity
• Interested in becoming involved in a project over the longer term rather than simply completing isolated programming tasks

We don't expect you to know everything on day one. We do expect you to be willing to learn.

Approximately 3 days per week, with flexibility around working days and hours.

Location: Remote – work from home anywhere in Australia.

The successful applicant will work closely with the owners of Grey Nomads Jobs and under the technical supervision of our experienced developer.

There is potential for the position to grow as the Grey Nomads Jobs platform develops.

Competitive graduate/junior remuneration, negotiated according to qualifications, skills and experience.

Please send us a short introduction telling us about yourself, your IT/software qualifications and why this project interests you.

Please also include your CV and, importantly, examples of things you have actually built. These can be university projects, personal projects, websites, applications, GitHub projects or commercial work.

We are much more interested in seeing what you can do and how you think than receiving a long list of qualifications.

Grey Nomads Jobs