Backend Engineer

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

Job Description

AlgoDriven builds SaaS for the automotive industry across Australia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe. EvalExpert for trade-in appraisals, DriveExpert for test-drive management, and our pricing and VIN-decode APIs process large volumes of data daily for dealerships and OEM partners. We're growing our Dubai engineering team.

About AlgoDriven

AlgoDriven builds SaaS for the automotive industry across Australia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe. EvalExpert for trade-in appraisals, DriveExpert for test-drive management, and our pricing and VIN-decode APIs process large volumes of data daily for dealerships and OEM partners. We're growing our Dubai engineering team.

How We Build

We are an AI-first engineering team, and we mean something specific by it. Our engineers drive coding agents wired into the terminal, the repo, the test suite and the deploy pipeline, and take features from a written spec to production with the agent doing most of the typing. Your job is to decide what to build, write a brief precise enough to act on, review hard, and own the result. Editor autocomplete is not what we mean. If your AI use stops at Copilot suggesting the next line, this role won't fit. If you've written specs an agent built from, hooked agents up to your own CLI tools or MCP servers, had them run tests and touch infrastructure, and you know where they fail — you'll fit well.

What You'll Do

• 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

Essential

• 5+ years building production backend systems in PHP and Node.js — real depth in both, not familiarity with one
• 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. Real work, not a weekend experiment
• 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

Nice to have

• Custom agent tooling: MCP servers, CLI integrations, agent-driven CI
• AWS in production, Docker, React
• Queues, background jobs, event-driven systems
• SaaS, multi-tenant or high-traffic experience

What we offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Long-term product work, not agency projects
• A team that expects you to use the best tools available, and pays for them
• Real scale, real data, real users, and a growing Dubai hub with progression