Remote PHP & SQL AI Engineer - Build & Automate

Stratospherec Ltd; City of Westminster; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Stratospherec Ltd. is hiring a Software Engineer to join an agile development team in a broad role blending software engineering, AI-powered automation and technical operations.

You will contribute to a platform built with PHP, MySQL and AWS, and apply AI techniques to coding, automation, and support processes. The role suits a mid-level or recent senior engineer with strong PHP and SQL skills, a solid foundation in software engineering, and experience using AI to solve practical problems.

Qualifications

• Commercial software engineering experience
• Strong PHP and SQL skills and experience working with relational databases
• Sound software engineering fundamentals, including maintainable code, testing and debugging
• Practical experience with deployment processes, CI/CD or development automation

Responsibilities

• Developing and improving software using AI tools: Deliver features, enhancements and bug fixes from Jira tickets, helping clarify requirements and scope technical solutions.
• Maintaining code quality: Review and test both manually written and AI-generated code, building your understanding of the existing platform and maintaining engineering standards.
• Developing support automation: Improve the existing RAG pipeline and introduce practical automation to help the support team investigate and resolve customer issues.
• Working with databases: Write and maintain SQL, manage schema changes and migrations, and support MySQL database integrity and performance.
• Improving deployments: Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automate repetitive tasks and support reliable software releases.
• Monitoring AWS infrastructure: Develop monitoring and alerting for availability, resource utilisation and performance, helping identify issues early.
• Solving operational challenges: Investigate complex technical problems, support customer implementations and coordinate with external infrastructure specialists when needed.

Skills

PHP

SQL

AI

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

Stratospherec Ltd. is hiring a Software Engineer to join an agile development team in a broad role blending software engineering, AI-powered automation and technical operations.

You will contribute to a platform built with PHP, MySQL and AWS, and apply AI techniques to coding, automation, and support processes. The role suits a mid-level or recent senior engineer with strong PHP and SQL skills, a solid foundation in software engineering, and experience using AI to solve practical problems.