Senior TypeScript Backend Engineer

HIGH BRIDGE CONSULTING LLC; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

High Bridge Consulting LLC is recruiting on behalf of a client, a 3rd-generation management consulting firm, for a Senior TypeScript Backend Engineer. This 100% remote role focuses on building an agentic workflow-orchestration platform, starting with vulnerability discovery, with two architect-level engineers and a part-time SME shaping priorities.

You will lead hands-on TS development, integrate with Temporal/Dapr/AWS Step Functions, and work in a distributed, event-driven environment using

Qualifications

• Lead TypeScript development with hands-on coding.
• Direct experience building on workflow/orchestration engines such as Temporal, Dapr, or AWS Step Functions.
• Strong distributed-systems background: message queues/pub-sub (e.g. Kafka), event-driven architecture, and retry/idempotency patterns.
• Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift experience: deployment, scaling, and networking basics.

Responsibilities

• Augment the client's engineering team building the agentic workflow-orchestration platform, per client direction and prioritization.
• Evaluate and recommend workflow/orchestration engine and infrastructure choices.
• Design and implement composable, polyglot workflow steps within the orchestration harness.

Skills

Tech lead TypeScript

Workflow engines

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Leadership

Messaging queues

Tools

Temporal

Kafka

Job description

Our client, a 3rd-generation management consulting firm. They are now looking to add to their team and are hiring a Senior TypeScript Backend Engineer can be 100% remote.

Project Description

Client is building an agentic workflow-orchestration platform in-house, starting with vulnerability discovery as its first workflow. The client's engineering team with two architect-level, hands-on TypeScript engineers plus a part-time solution-partner subject-matter expert, working the priorities the client sets rather than owning delivery of a fixed scope end to end.

Keywords:

• Workflow/orchestration engines (Temporal, Dapr, AWS Step Functions)


• Distributed systems and event-driven architecture


• Kubernetes


• Senior TypeScript backend engineering

Required (Must have)

• Tech lead or team lead level TypeScript development: writes production code hands-on as a lead, not solely reviewing architecture or delegating implementation.


• Direct experience building on workflow/orchestration engines such as Temporal, Dapr, or AWS Step Functions.


• Strong distributed-systems background: message queues/pub-sub (e.g. Kafka), event-driven architecture, and retry/idempotency patterns.


• Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift experience: deployment, scaling, and networking basics.


• Enterprise architecture background sufficient to work from a design document and exercise sound, independent judgment in a fast-moving environment where scope is still being designed and priorities may shift.

Nice to have (ideal to have)

• Comfort evaluating and comparing infrastructure platforms and making build-vs-buy recommendations.


• Experience in regulated or financial-services environments: governance and audit-trail thinking.


• Integrate LLM/AI agent tool-use into platform workflows as directed by the client.


• Duties to be performed (Details around what the consultant would do on the project)


• Augment the client's engineering team building the agentic workflow-orchestration platform, per client direction and prioritization.


• Evaluate and recommend workflow/orchestration engine and infrastructure choices.


• Design and implement composable, polyglot workflow steps within the orchestration harness.

Environment (Details around what technologies are used at the client)

• TypeScript


• Temporal or a comparable workflow orchestration engine


• Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift


• Kafka or a comparable message queue/pub-sub system


• Containerized, polyglot workflow steps

This is a remote position.