Back end developer

PHP AI Developer

We are seeking a highly skilled PHP AI Developer with experience in building intelligent web applications, AI-powered automation solutions, and scalable enterprise systems. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in PHP (Laravel), MySQL, JavaScript, REST APIs, AI integrations (OpenAI/Gemini/LLMs), and workflow automation, along with hands-on experience in developing AI-driven products and business applications. This role offers Permanent Work From Home.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable PHP/Laravel applications integrated with AI capabilities.
• Build AI-powered modules such as chatbots, document processing systems, recommendation engines, and workflow automation tools.
• Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, or similar AI services into web applications.
• Develop and optimize REST APIs and third-party integrations.
• Implement AI features including text generation, summarization, classification, semantic search, and conversational interfaces.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate with product, design, and business teams to deliver AI-enabled solutions.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Stay updated with emerging AI technologies and recommend innovative improvements.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong expertise in PHP (Laravel, Core PHP).
• Proficiency in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Experience with AI APIs and LLM integrations (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, etc.).
• Knowledge of Prompt Engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Vector Databases, and AI Workflows.
• Experience with REST APIs, Webhooks, and third-party integrations.
• Hands-on experience with Git/GitHub, Docker, CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
• Minimum 2+ years of software development experience, including AI-powered application development.

Preferred Experience

• Experience developing AI-powered SaaS platforms.
• Knowledge of chatbot development and intelligent automation solutions.
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB, or FAISS.
• Exposure to enterprise-scale applications and high-traffic systems.
• Experience in ERP, CRM, EdTech, HRMS, or workflow management platforms with AI enhancements

Join us to reimagine how businesses integrate data and automate processes – with AI at the core.

About FloData

FloData is re-imagining the iPaaS and Business Process Automation (BPA) space for a new era - one where business teams, not just IT, can integrate data, run automations, and solve ops bottlenecks using intuitive, AI-driven interfaces. We're a small, hands-on team with a deep technical foundation and strong industry connects. Backed by real-world learnings from our earlier platform version, we're now going all-in on building a generative AI-first experience.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Full-Stack Tech Lead who can drive the development of our new platform while mentoring a small but capable team. You'll own technical delivery across the stack (Next.js, Nest.js, Spring Boot, LangGraph on AWS), influence architecture decisions, and work closely with leadership on bringing our product vision to life.

If you're excited about building AI-native experiences, love working across the stack, and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, this is your chance to shape a category-defining product.

What You'll Do

• Spend 70% of your time designing, building, and reviewing software across frontend, backend, and AI layers
• Guide a small engineering team (30% of your time) and lead from the front
• Translate product and business needs into system designs and execution plans
• Own the delivery of features and infrastructure that can scale to enterprise-grade workloads
• Unblock the team, champion engineering best practices, and build a culture of quality
• Contribute to architectural decisions and introduce new technologies as needed (e. g., queuing, observability, etc. )
• Be a mentor, collaborator, and the go-to person for complex technical decisions
• Advocate and implement AI-first principles in every layer of the product

You Might Be a Fit If You Have

• 6-8 years of experience building and scaling full-stack applications
• Proven track record in early-stage B2B SaaS or platform engineering teams
• Strong command over modern web stacks - ideally Next.js, Nest.js, and Spring Boot
• Comfort working with AWS and hybrid/on-premise infra setups
• Experience or deep interest in building AI-powered user experiences (LangGraph, LLMs, etc.)
• A strong sense of ownership, product thinking, and attention to detail
• Startup mindset: resourceful, fast-moving, and outcome-focused
• Experience with enterprise IT SAAS software (Salesforce, Oracle ERP, Netsuite, etc) is a plus

Why Join Us

• Build a generational product at the intersection of AI, automation, and data
• Work closely with founders and leadership with no layers of bureaucracy
• Have end-to-end ownership of what you ship
• Help shape the culture and tech foundations of a new, ambitious company
• Onsite in Hyderabad, with flexibility when needed

Sounds like you?

We'd love to talk. Apply now or reach out directly to explore this opportunity.

Candidates MUST HAVE :

● Deep expertise with JavaScript. Extensive hands-on experience building microservices using NodeJs.

● Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.

● Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns

● Strong experience and understanding of various APIS / Web Services and SQL/NoSQL databases

● Architected non-trivial solutions for a company at a scale

● Proficient in unit testing, writing mocks, automated functional tests, and end-end tests

● Experience with a variety of languages, stacks, and programming paradigms

● Capability to contribute across the web and mobile stacks

● Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly

● The ability to independently lead problem-solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems.

Good to Have

● Experience in building projects with TypeScript, ExpressJs, NextJS, ReactJs, Flutte,r etc.

● Experience with gRPC or GraphQL API implementations.

● Experience in any other programming languages such as Python/Go/Scala

● Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and

● Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

● Good hand-on with data streaming technologies like Kafka

● Experience with cloud APIs (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)

● Understanding on information security and data privacy

● Experience in open-source development and contribution to open-source technology

Roles and Responsibilities :

● Write clean, reliable, reusable, scalable, testable and maintainable code.

● Produce best in class documentation, testing and monitoring

● Estimate effort, identify risks

● Mentor/coach other engineers in the team to facilitate their development and to provide technical leadership to them.

● Rise above details as and when needed to spot broader issues/trends and implications for the product/team as a whole

● Practice and promote craftsmanship in software engineering (coding, testing, code reviews, documentation, scalability, performance, etc.)

● Break down requirements, estimate tasks, and assist in planning roadmap accurately

● Develop iterative solutions to address expansive product goals

● Platformism components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse

● Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly

● Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.

● Take accountability for the overall health of the products you build and ensure predictability of the deliverables of your team 1

● Drive technical roadmap of the team in collaboration with Product and Business Teams.

We are a B2B SaaS company that is re-imagining how companies use sales incentives to motivate their employees. We believe great results are only achieved when people are motivated - and our product is nothing but an extension of that philosophy.

On a more day-to-day level, our product takes away the ambiguity and grunt-work behind manual sales incentive calculation, and allows companies to experiment with incentive plans that actually work for every employee - and not just top performers. We are a team of experienced founders who between them have built and sold software products pretty much all across the globe. We are backed by some of the best angels and institutional investors in India - and are growing at breakneck speed.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a collaborative, agile team to deliver industry-leading engagement capabilities in web.
• Integrate with other services to help Elevate seamlessly provide value to more companies
• Design and develop feature enhancements that continue to deliver on the value and provide an excellent customer experience
• Troubleshoot and resolve emergency server or code issues at any stack level
• Ability to empathize with end-users; build with scale and ease of adoption in mind
• Experience building in an agile setting with code reviews and quality as a priority
• Strong design skills for separation and modularity of code; aversion to overly complex, spaghetti code

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or commensurate experience
• 1+ years experience in production web application development
• 1+ years of experience working with NodeJS or an equivalent web framework and language
• Experience writing JavaScript code, either vanilla JS or using a framework such as Node.js or React, Redux
• Unit testing experience (Jest)
• 3rd party API usage and integration experience
• RDBMS usage (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• AWS

Persistence: design it, build it, if it breaks, fix it, but make it work, and make it shine

Bonus Skills

• Free and/or Open Source project work
• Amazon Web Services, DevOps experience
• Database Design

Perks

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Great culture and team camaraderie
• Work from Anywhere
• Health Insurance
• Flexible vacation and sick policy
• Macbook Pro or similar Linux laptop