Job Description

Salary: $103,000 - 143,000 per year Requirements:

• Approximately 2–4 years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong practical experience with PHP in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda or serverless architecture, and familiarity with the broader AWS ecosystem.
• Solid MySQL skills, including relational data modeling, efficient query writing, and performance troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of Python to read, support, and extend an AI agent codebase.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL.
• Understanding of REST APIs, Git, automated testing, and general software engineering best practices.
• Interest in AI/LLM-based features and willingness to develop skills in this area.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently on well-scoped tasks.
• Ownership, clear communication, a quality-focused approach, and curiosity about practical applications of AI.
• Preferred: Experience building or integrating AI agents or LLM-powered features, such as with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar frameworks.
• Preferred: Experience with AWS services such as API Gateway, SQS, S3, AuroraDB, CloudWatch, or SNS.
• Preferred: Familiarity with event-driven or message-queue architectures.
• Preferred: Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, or Infrastructure as Code such as CloudFormation.
• Preferred: Exposure to vector databases or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Preferred: Comfort working across PHP and Python stacks.

• Design, build, and maintain PHP backend services running on AWS Lambda.
• Model, query, and optimize MySQL data, including schemas, indexes, and query performance.
• Support, maintain, and extend AI Agent functionality written in Python and backed by PostgreSQL.
• Develop scalable solutions using AI and LLM capabilities, bringing features from prototype to production.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code with clear structure, tests, and sound engineering practices.
• Participate in code reviews and exchange constructive feedback.
• Integrate third-party APIs and internal services reliably and securely.
• Monitor, debug, and optimize serverless function performance, reliability, and cost.
• Contribute to technical discussions, documentation, and ongoing improvements to our codebase and processes.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and engineering teammates to deliver features end to end.

• AI
• AI Agents
• API
• AWS
• Lambda
• Backend
• CI/CD
• CloudWatch
• Docker
• Frontend
• Git
• Support
• LLM
• MySQL
• PHP
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• RAG
• REST
• Serverless
• Cloud

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We are Bear Claw, an AI-powered recruiting and applicant tracking platform that helps recruiters work more efficiently and place talent faster. Our system brings recruiting workflows together, including candidate and job management, team collaboration, sourcing, and outreach. Cora, our conversational AI assistant, uses vector search and LLM technology to identify candidate-job matches and surface opportunities. In this hands-on Middle Backend Developer role, you will join our engineering team to help build and scale our product, working primarily with PHP, AWS Lambda, and MySQL while contributing to AI-driven features built with Python and PostgreSQL. The role offers ownership of shipped features and opportunities to grow into more senior technical work. We offer a competitive salary, healthcare, vision and dental coverage, a 401(k), collaboration with innovation-focused professionals, and opportunities to develop specialist skills or move into management. We value high performance and quality customer care.

last updated 41 week of 2026

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