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Strong autonomy, async communication, and cross-cultural collaboration across Brazil, South Africa, and Colombia are essential.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain chatbot flows, IVR configurations, and low-code automation workflows (N8N, Make) to automate customer interactions across 9 countries - ensuring every solution is tested, documented, and measured before and after release.\n\nDevelop and maintain RESTful APIs used by bots and IVR systems (PHP current stack, expanding) maintenance, and managing releases via Git PR workflows.\n\nContribute to the evolution of PayJoy's Al platform - including Generative Al integrations, dynamic knowledge base management, agentic automation, and prompt engineering to continuously improve Bot Handle Rate, BSAT, and cost-per-contact metrics.\n\nCollaborate with CX Operations stakeholders across multiple countries and time zones to translate business requirements into technical solutions - communicating clearly in writing and meetings, and producing technical PRDs and documentation in Confluence.\n\nParticipate in POCs for IVR platform migration (Amazon Connect, UJET) and support technical evaluation, configuration, and integration work as the team expands its cloud and CCaaS footprint.\n\nOperate with full end-to-end ownership: manage backlog items in Jira within Scrum ceremonies, ship solutions with unit and integration tests, monitor post-release performance, and report impact metrics to demonstrate measurable business value.\n\nRequirements\nSoftware & Tools: PHP 8.x, RESTful APls (design & consumption), Postman, MySQL, Docker, Git (PR workflow, branching, releases).\n\nSpecific Knowledge: Experience with conversational Al and/or IVR platforms; 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