AI-First Backend Engineer – PHP/Node, Dubai

AlgoDriven; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Long-term product work

Tools stipend

Dubai hub progression

Job summary

AlgoDriven, a Dubai-based AI-first SaaS company for the automotive industry, is growing its Dubai engineering team. You will own backend features end to end, from spec to deploy, and work with AI coding agents to ship production-grade results at scale.

You will debug live systems, optimise MySQL queries, and build services on AWS while influencing architecture and mentoring the team as it grows. This role requires deep PHP and Node.js expertise and a track record of delivering robust backend

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems in PHP and Node.js.
• You ship with AI agents, not just autocomplete. You've connected a coding agent to your terminal and repo, worked spec-first, and put the result into production — Claude Code, Cursor's agent, Codex, MCP servers, agents in CI.
• Strong MySQL, including performance tuning
• Proven ability to debug and improve live systems
• Already in the UAE — we sponsor the visa, but we don't relocate candidates from abroad

Responsibilities

• Own backend features end to end: spec, build, deploy, monitor, iterate
• Drive AI coding agents across that whole path, and improve the agent tooling the team relies on
• Debug production issues — performance bottlenecks, data problems
• Work deeply with MySQL: query optimisation, indexing, large tables, migrations
• Build and scale services on AWS
• Contribute to architecture decisions and mentor as the team grows

Skills

Backend development PHP

Node.js expertise

AI agents integration

MySQL performance tuning

Debugging live systems

UAE work eligibility

Tools

AWS

Docker

React

MCP servers

CLI integrations

CI tools

Job description

AlgoDriven, a Dubai-based AI-first SaaS company for the automotive industry, is growing its Dubai engineering team. You will own backend features end to end, from spec to deploy, and work with AI coding agents to ship production-grade results at scale.

You will debug live systems, optimise MySQL queries, and build services on AWS while influencing architecture and mentoring the team as it grows. This role requires deep PHP and Node.js expertise and a track record of delivering robust backend