Nocturne Luxury Villas is a collection of the world’s most exceptional villa rental brands, unified by a single purpose: to redefine what it means to travel well. We are not a marketplace or listing platform—we are a hospitality company through and through, built on a people-driven ethos. At the heart of every extraordinary travel experience we create are extraordinary accommodations, delivered with world-class service.
The Web Developer is responsible for supporting, maintaining, and extending a custom multi-brand CMS platform used across multiple websites and business units. This role requires strong hands-on development skills, the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, and experience working within shared CMS codebases and production environments.
The position will work closely with an external vendor that originally developed the CMS while owning day-to-day development, enhancements, troubleshooting, and operational stability of internal web properties. This is a highly autonomous role supporting business-critical production systems across multiple brands. Strong communication, accountability, responsiveness, and organizational skills are essential. The environment consists of multiple independent brand platforms with overlapping functionality, shared architectural components, and brand-specific customizations.
Develops and maintains web applications using PHP (CodeIgniter), Node.js, JavaScript, and related technologies.
Supports, maintains, and extends a custom CMS platform.
Manages multiple websites and environments operating from shared frameworks and codebases.
Handles multiple active projects simultaneously while balancing priorities, deadlines, and operational needs.
Coordinates with the external CMS vendor on enhancements, fixes, platform changes, and escalations.
Implements new features while ensuring cross-site compatibility, production stability, and minimal operational disruption.
Troubleshoots production issues, identifies root causes, and optimizes application performance.
Uses Git to manage branches, releases, deployments, and rollback strategies across environments.
Clones and maintains sites, including UI enhancements requiring strong HTML and CSS skills.
Maintains clean, organized, documented, and production-ready code.
Follows structured deployment, release, and change management practices.
Evaluates production impact and rollback considerations prior to releases.
Maintains awareness of uptime, security, and cross-brand stability impacts.
Participates in troubleshooting and resolution of production incidents.
Escalates critical issues appropriately and communicates status clearly to stakeholders.
Proactively communicates blockers, delays, operational risks, and project concerns.
Maintains reliable availability during agreed working hours.
Demonstrates strong organizational and time-management skills in a remote environment.
Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.
A four-year college degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems or equivalent is required.
A minimum of 4 years of professional web development experience.
Strong working knowledge of PHP, Node.js, JavaScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries (React preferred).
Demonstrated experience working within CMS-based platforms, including custom CMS environments.
Experience managing multiple websites or environments from shared codebases.
Proficiency with Git and structured release workflows.
Experience with MySQL or similar relational databases.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
Direct responsibility for maintaining and supporting production web systems across multiple brands and environments.
Must be comfortable context-switching across projects and brands.
Ability to work independently in a remote environment with minimal supervision and during East Coast business hours.
Demonstrated ability to manage workload and priorities in a remote environment.
Strong communication and documentation skills.
High degree of professionalism, dependability, and operational accountability.
Occasional off-hours support during releases or incidents may be required.
Fluent English (written and spoken).
Experience working alongside external development vendors.
Familiarity with REST APIs and third-party integrations.
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and environment management (development/staging/production).
Experience maintaining and modernizing legacy platforms.
Understanding secure development practices and common web application vulnerabilities.
Experience participating in remediation of security findings and technical debt reduction initiatives.
Eligible for a target bonus up to 20% of the annual base salary, subject to applicable deductions and withholdings. For 2026, the bonus will be pro-rated for the portion of the year employed.
Paid time off such as PTO, sick days, and vacation days
Health insurance, Dental, and Vision insurance
Life insurance
Retirement benefits or accounts
Healthcare spending or reimbursement accounts, such as HSAs, FSAs, and HRAs
Long term and Short Term disability insurance