Senior AI Platform Engineer – RAG & Autonomous Agents

Choovie; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Choovie in Melbourne seeks a Senior Software Engineer to bridge a CakePHP core with cutting-edge AI. You will build MCP servers, scale a relational datastore, and design low-latency RAG pipelines that power real-time cinema sessions and voucher automation.

You'll lead the development of autonomous web agents using Playwright and AI vision, deploy multi-cloud AI workloads, and shape scalable infrastructure while ensuring data integrity and SEO-friendly data schemas.

Qualifications

• Senior PHP & MVC mastery with CakePHP (or Laravel/Symfony) to maintain and scale high-traffic apps.
• Experience building MCP servers to expose live data to LLMs securely.
• Proficiency in relational DBs (MySQL/PostgreSQL) with vector search for RAG pipelines.
• Hands-on with deploying AI workloads across cloud environments (AWS/GCP).
• Familiarity with autonomous web agents and modern AI frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or CrewAI.
• Knowledge of SEO/Schema.org data to improve AI discovery of content.

Responsibilities

• Bridge and extend the core CakePHP stack for AI modules.
• Architect RAG pipelines and MCP services for real-time data access by LLMs.
• Develop MCP servers to securely expose datasets to AI models.
• Build autonomous web agents for complex voucher redemptions and tasks.
• Implement multi-cloud deployment and monitoring for AI workloads.
• Design scalable data schemas to boost SEO and AI discovery.

Skills

PHP & MVC

MCP

RAG pipelines

Multi-cloud

Autonomous agents

AI integration

Tools

Playwright

LangChain

LangGraph

CrewAI

AWS

GCP

Job description

Choovie in Melbourne seeks a Senior Software Engineer to bridge a CakePHP core with cutting-edge AI. You will build MCP servers, scale a relational datastore, and design low-latency RAG pipelines that power real-time cinema sessions and voucher automation.

You'll lead the development of autonomous web agents using Playwright and AI vision, deploy multi-cloud AI workloads, and shape scalable infrastructure while ensuring data integrity and SEO-friendly data schemas.