Senior Software Engineer (AI-Assisted Development)

Experience: 5.00 + years

Salary: Confidential (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 15 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Contract for 12 Months(40 hrs a week/160 hrs a month)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' client - Domain Management Platform)

What do you need for this opportunity?

Must have skills required:

AST parsing, automated test generation, CLI Tools, guardrails for AI-generated code, IDE extensions, LangChain or LangGraph, Static Analysis Tools, AI Agents, Ci/Cd Pipelines, LLM tools, Docker, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, PHP, Redis

Domain Management Platform is Looking for:

About The Role

You will be joining a Technology department and work with our main products: RCP (Reseller Control Panel), which is the main user interface our customers interact with Domains & DNS, including all domain related features like domain registration, domain checker, domain transfers and trades, domain related APIs and integrations with third party platforms like WHMCS, Blesta, etc.

Role purpose

We are looking for a strong hands-on senior engineer with deep experience in our technical stack (PHP, Go, React) who can understand and navigate large legacy systems, generate structured context from existing codebases, leverage AI tools responsibly for refactoring and modernization, and enable the engineering team to adopt AI-driven workflows to improve agility and robustness.

_We are seeking a skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our team and provide support in managing back-end processes. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining high-level software that meet our business requirements.

_Key Responsibilities

Codebase Modernization & Refactoring

• Analyze and understand existing PHP and Go services.
• Identify technical debt, architectural bottlenecks, and performance risks.
• Design and implement structured refactors to improve scalability, maintainability, and security.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate refactoring and system redesign responsibly.

AI-Enabled Engineering Workflows

• Build structured context pipelines to help AI understand systems.
• Develop internal workflows for safer refactors, improved unit testing, and debugging acceleration.
• Establish guardrails to ensure AI-generated code meets quality and security standards.

Enterprise System Design

• Design APIs and services in PHP (Symfony) and Go.
• Maintain architectural standards (SOLID, clean architecture).
• Improve observability and operational stability.
• Ensure alignment with ISO 27001 and security best practices.

Team Enablement

• Mentor engineers in AI-assisted coding practices.
• Define practical AI usage guidelines.
• Drive measurable productivity improvements without compromising quality.

Candidate should have:

• 5+ years of strong backend engineering experience.
• 1+ years of AI agent assisted software development experience
• Deep hands-on experience in PHP (Symfony) and/or Go.
• Strong API design experience (REST, gRPC exposure preferred).
• Solid database knowledge (MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• Experience with Redis, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch.
• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.
• GCP or AWS deployment experience.
• Practical experience using LLM tools in engineering workflows.
• Strong understanding of SOLID, design patterns, and refactoring strategies.

Our stack:

• Backend: PHP 7+, Symfony, Go
• Frontend: React
• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Messaging & Cache: RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), GCP, AWS
• Tooling: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jira, Confluence, Prometheus, Grafana

What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)

• Legacy modules safely refactored or re-architected.
• Improved test coverage across critical systems.
• Clear AI usage guidelines adopted across teams.
• Reduced debugging and refactoring cycles.
• Measurable improvement in engineering agility.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Experience building developer tooling (CLI tools, IDE extensions).
• Experience with AST parsing or static analysis tools.
• Experience implementing automated test generation.
• Experience building guardrails for AI-generated code.
• Exposure to orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph.

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