Back End Developer
SupportRoom · Ukraine
About this role
The Back-End Developer will build and own backend services for both SupportRoom and Vipani AI platforms. Responsibilities include developing services in a Laravel (PHP) core platform and Python/FastAPI AI services, designing MySQL schemas, and building RESTful APIs. The role requires daily use of AI coding tools like Claude Code to execute specs and refactor code. The developer will work in an AI-augmented engineering team that focuses on architecture, data design, and product judgement. The candidate will integrate AI pipeline outputs into product-facing APIs and participate in code reviews.
Skills & technologies
Must have
- Python
- PHP
- Laravel
- MySQL
- RESTful APIs
- Git
- Claude Code
- AI coding tools
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Back-End Developer (AI-Augmented)
Full Time · Remote
About us
We're building the future of workplace intelligence - platforms that help organisations understand, support and improve their workforce by turning wellbeing, behavioural and engagement signals into decisions leaders act on.
SupportRoom - an employee wellbeing platform giving employees access to therapy, coaching, mentoring and digital support tools including chat, video, voice messaging and journaling.
Vipani AI (VAI) - an AI-powered workplace intelligence platform that surfaces behavioural signals, identifies workplace risks early, and translates them into the financial and performance language leadership teams act on.
Our platforms serve organisations across the UK, Europe and the GCC, in healthcare, insurance, financial services, retail, technology and professional services.
How we build
We are an AI-augmented engineering team. Claude Code is part of our daily workflow - we write specs, direct agents, and review their output critically before it ships. You'll work this way from day one: less time typing boilerplate, more time on architecture, data design and product judgement. If AI-assisted development isn't already part of how you work - or something you're genuinely hungry to master - this won't be the right role.
The role
You'll build and own backend services across both platforms:
- Develop and maintain services in our Laravel (PHP) core platform and Python/FastAPI AI services.
- Design and optimise MySQL schemas, queries and indexing for analytics-heavy workloads.
- Build and version RESTful APIs consumed by our web frontend and mobile apps.
- Integrate AI pipeline outputs - scoring, insights, agent responses - into product-facing APIs.
- Use Claude Code daily: execute specs, generate and refactor code, and critically review agent output.
- Debug across the stack, participate in code reviews, and keep documentation current.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional backend development experience.
- Strong Python; hands-on experience with PHP and Laravel.
- Strong MySQL: schema design, optimisation, indexing, performance tuning.
- Daily working use of AI coding tools (Claude Code preferred; Cursor or Copilot acceptable) - you can direct an agent from a clear spec and spot when its output is wrong.
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs.
- Git and modern development workflow fluency.
- Professional working English.
Nice to have
- FastAPI or async Python services.
- AWS, including SageMaker or deployment pipelines.
- SaaS, analytics or reporting products.
- HR tech or people-analytics exposure.
What we provide
Claude Code and AI tooling subscriptions - we invest in your leverage.
Remote-first, async-friendly working.
A small team with real customers, shipping weekly, where your work is visible in the product immediately.
Compensation
€2,000 - €2,500/month depending on experience and assessment performance.
Assessment
Our technical assessment mirrors the job: you'll receive a spec and access to AI tooling. We evaluate how you direct the work, the decisions you make, and what you catch in the output - not how fast you type.
