Backend Engineer

AlgoDriven | Dubai, Dubai, AE | on_site

Apply for the Backend Engineer role at AlgoDriven in Dubai, UAE. Full-time on-site opportunity requiring 5+ years of PHP, Node.js, MySQL and production AI-agent engineering experience.

Job description

AlgoDriven is hiring a Backend Engineer for its growing engineering team in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. AlgoDriven builds SaaS products and automotive-data services used by dealerships and OEM partners across multiple international markets. The engineering team uses an AI-first development workflow in which engineers guide coding agents from written specifications through implementation, testing and deployment while retaining ownership of architecture, review quality and production outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Own backend features end to end
  • including specification
  • development
  • deployment
  • monitoring and iteration.
  • Use AI coding agents throughout the engineering workflow and help improve the team's agent tooling.
  • Debug production issues including performance bottlenecks and data problems.
  • Work deeply with MySQL, including query optimisation, indexing, large tables and migrations.
  • Build and scale backend services on AWS.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions as the engineering organisation grows.
  • Mentor and support other engineers as the team expands.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building production backend systems.
  • Strong production experience in both PHP and Node.js.
  • Hands-on production use of AI coding agents rather than autocomplete-only workflows.
  • Experience connecting coding agents to terminals, repositories, testing or deployment workflows using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor Agent, Codex, MCP servers or similar systems.
  • Strong MySQL knowledge, including performance tuning.
  • Proven ability to debug and improve live production systems.
  • Candidate must already be located in the United Arab Emirates.
  • AlgoDriven states that visa sponsorship is available, but relocation from outside the UAE is not provided.

Skills

  • PHP
  • Node.js
  • Backend Engineering
  • MySQL
  • SQL Performance Tuning
  • Database Indexing
  • Database Migrations
  • AWS
  • Production Debugging
  • System Architecture
  • AI Coding Agents
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor Agent
  • Codex
  • MCP Servers
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
  • React
  • Queues and Background Jobs
  • Event-Driven Systems
  • SaaS
  • High-Traffic Systems
  • Additional / Nice-to-Have Experience
  • Custom AI-agent tooling such as MCP servers