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# Digital Systems Developer (AI-Augmented)

- **Company:** POP telecom
- **Location:** Newmarket, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £30,000.0 - £32,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Online Services, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Data Integrity, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Web Development, Digital Technology, Issue Tracking Systems, JSON, MariaDB, MySQL, Nginx, JSON Web Token, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Systems Integration, WordPress, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Backend, Stripe, Production Code, Restful APIs
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=185a8ad8738a946e

## About the Role

Practical backend web development and relational database experience - you can design a schema, write the queries and make them fast.

 - Real experience using AI coding assistants to build production software, and clear opinions on where they help and where they get it wrong.

 - Comfortable working with third-party APIs, including badly documented ones, and debugging by reading the wire.

 - Security-minded: auth, sessions, CSRF, input handling and personal data are second nature.

 - Able to take a loosely described business problem and turn it into a scoped, buildable spec - you will often be the one writing the brief for Claude.

 - Right to work in the UK; fluent written British English.

Desirable

 - Knowledge of PHP (plain, framework-free) and MariaDB/MySQL.

 - Experience administering or deploying to a Plesk-managed VPS.

 - Telecoms or ISP background (broadband provisioning, Openreach/wholesale processes, billing and reconciliation, One Touch Switch).

 - WordPress plugin development.

 - Experience with TM Forum APIs, CDR pipelines or TR-069/ACS.

 - Experience with data reconciliation or duplicate-detection logic.

## Description

We are hiring a developer to work directly alongside our technical lead and Claude, the AI we use every day as a working collaborator. This is not a "we use Copilot for autocomplete" role. Claude designs, writes and reviews production code with us; your job is to direct that work, judge it, integrate it and ship it. If you have already found that pairing with an AI makes you far more productive - and you want to do that all day, on systems that real customers and staff depend on - this is the role.

What you will do

 - Turn operational problems ("orders stall here", "billing files don't reconcile", "staff re-key this three times") into specified, working systems - fast.

 - Pair with Claude to design, build, test and harden new BSS modules and integrations, then take ownership of getting them live.

 - Work against wholesale and carrier APIs (broadband aggregators, Openreach-based suppliers, One Touch Switch, mobile SIM management) - SOAP, XML, REST and JWT auth, often with thin or wrong documentation.

 - Build internal tooling that changes how the business operates: automation of manual processes, dashboards, reconciliation engines, customer self-service, and the odd AI-driven feature (we already run an AI first-responder in our ticket system).

 - Deploy and look after what you build on our Plesk-managed VPS hosting.

 - Review AI-generated code critically: security, edge cases, data integrity and performance are yours to sign off, not the model's.

 - Ship in small, frequent increments across our family of brands.

 - Improve and enhance what is built to ensure we are ahead of the game.

Our stack

 - PHP 8.3+, PDO, MariaDB - framework-free, minimal dependencies
 - Vanilla JavaScript, HTML/CSS; no build pipeline
 - Plesk-managed VPS hosting, nginx, zip deployment
 - Integrations via SOAP, REST/JSON, Microsoft Graph, Stripe, GoCardless, Royal Mail
 - Claude (Anthropic) as the day-to-day development partner