Senior AI Agent Engineer - Fully Remote Job

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5-10 years experience
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AI Summary

The role involves modernizing and refactoring large legacy systems in PHP and Go, leveraging AI tools responsibly to accelerate these processes and establish safer engineering workflows. Key duties include designing and implementing AI Agents to assist, audit, and automate parts of the software engineering lifecycle.

About the company

About the company


Openprovider is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar and technology company founded in 2004 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Now we are a team of 110+ people, working fully remotely from all over the world. All Openprovider employees work on a fully remote basis and without any geographical limitations. You don’t have to go to the office each day and deal with traffic or painful commutes. All you need is yourself, a laptop, and a cup of coffee. We support a healthy work/life balance and constantly strive to improve this aspect more and more every day. We support a flexible schedule and are 100% performance and result-oriented. Thanks to a combination of experience and expertise, we enable data-driven decision-making.


What we are looking for

Competencies:

Candidate should have:
  • 5+ years of strong backend engineering experience.
  • 1+ years of AI agent based 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.
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.

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 we offer

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.

What we offer

  • 100% remote work (you can work from any location, no need to go to the office);
  • Paid time off and sick leave;
  • International team and regular online and offline events to stay connected;
  • Internal workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions;
  • Quarterly review and annual salary review;
  • Flexible working hours;
  • We are ISO 27001-certified remote workplace.


Nice to have


About the role

About the projects

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 AI  Agent Engineer to join our team and provide support in managing back-end processes.  As a Senior AI Agent Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining high-level software that meet our business requirements. In this role, you won't just write code; you will design and implement AI Agents that assist, audit, and automate the software engineering process.


Key responsibilities

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.
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