AI-Driven Backend Engineer – Cloud-Native, Hybrid

AI Chopping Block, Inc.; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

ERoad is hiring an intermediate Software Engineer to join the platform team building a cloud-native, event-driven SaaS system spanning AWS and Azure. You will own delivery end-to-end within your squad, reporting to the Chapter Lead and helping shape how the team works.

You will design microservices, RESTful APIs, and automated tests, while applying AI-assisted coding practices and preparing for on-call rotations. This role emphasizes collaboration in a fast-growing, AI-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Backend production experience in Java or C#.
• Cloud-native development on AWS with Java/Spring or Azure with .NET.
• Microservice architecture and RESTful API design experience.
• Experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL or SQL Server.
• Experience designing and implementing automated tests across unit, component and integration levels.
• Git, trunk-based development and CI/CD experience.
• Docker and containerisation experience.
• Basic monitoring, alerting and observability experience.
• Hands-on AI-native delivery skills and ability to review AI-generated code before merge.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build microservices and RESTful APIs for a cloud-native, event-driven platform.
• Take features from design through to production, owning quality and outcomes.
• Decompose engineering work between what an AI agent can handle and what needs human judgement.
• Review and correct AI-generated code before it merges, catching failure modes like hallucinated imports or insecure defaults.
• Design and implement automated tests across unit, component and integration levels.
• Contribute to squad-level engineering standards and practices.
• Take part in an on-call rotation.

Skills

Java or C#

AWS / Azure cloud

Microservices & REST APIs

MongoDB / PostgreSQL / SQL Server

CI/CD & Git

Docker / containerisation

Automated testing (unit/integration)

AI tooling experience

On-call readiness

Job description

ERoad is hiring an intermediate Software Engineer to join the platform team building a cloud-native, event-driven SaaS system spanning AWS and Azure. You will own delivery end-to-end within your squad, reporting to the Chapter Lead and helping shape how the team works.

You will design microservices, RESTful APIs, and automated tests, while applying AI-assisted coding practices and preparing for on-call rotations. This role emphasizes collaboration in a fast-growing, AI-focused environment.