Senior Backend Engineer - AI Platform, Hybrid

Holokai; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage (Vision, Dental, &

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid flexibility

Job summary

Holokai is hiring a backend engineer to build core products alongside the founders and senior engineers. You will decide what to build with leadership, then implement robust solutions across a TS/Go/Python stack and a range of enterprise-grade security requirements.

The platform spans a desktop app, policy engine, agentic workflow orchestrator, a multi-model gateway, and a SaaS management console. You’ll own production quality from design to deployment in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong production experience with TypeScript and Go in backend services.
• Experience with AWS and containerized deployments.

Responsibilities

• Backend services: APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and core business logic.
• Policy enforcement: deterministic evaluation engines, rules processing, and classification.
• Agentic orchestration: multi-step AI plans using LLMs, deterministic workflows with policy checkpoints.
• Model gateway: routing and translation across LLM providers, token management, and request handling.
• Data layer: PostgreSQL schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
• Production ownership: you monitor, debug, and fix what you ship.

Job description

Holokai is hiring a backend engineer to build core products alongside the founders and senior engineers. You will decide what to build with leadership, then implement robust solutions across a TS/Go/Python stack and a range of enterprise-grade security requirements.

The platform spans a desktop app, policy engine, agentic workflow orchestrator, a multi-model gateway, and a SaaS management console. You’ll own production quality from design to deployment in a fast-moving startup.