Backend Engineer

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
  
  

Our process

Applying takes five minutes. If your answers fit, you'll get a short AI interview — about 35 minutes, whenever suits you — covering how you own work, how you debug production, and how you actually use AI agents. Clear that and there's a technical assessment of roughly 65 minutes: PHP or JavaScript, Node.js, MySQL, and a written brief of the kind you'd hand to a coding agent. Only then does a human get involved, and by then we already know your background fits, so the conversation is about the work.

Every completed application gets an answer. No CV black holes.

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