Holokai
Technology
SeniorEngineer,Backend
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“Senior Engineer, Backend at Holokai. Skills: Backend engineering, TypeScript, Go, AI/ML, Policy enforcement, Orchestration. Build core product. Decide what to build”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Debugging; Troubleshooting
U. S. Citizenship required
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Production experience in TypeScript and Go, Designing and building APIs, Backend service architecture, Relational databases, PostgreSQL, Schema design, query performance, migrations, Reading and extending code, Fluent with AI-assisted development tools, Production experience with AWS, Containerized deployments (Docker, ECS, EKS), Bias for shipping working software, Self-directed and comfortable with minimal structure, U. S. Citizenship required, Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
Nice to Have
LLM APIs and AI/ML pipelines, Prompt engineering, model integration, token economics, Policy engines or rules-based systems, Message queues and event-driven architectures, Frontend chops (React), Enterprise security, compliance, or governance experience
What You'll Do.
Build backend services
Build core business logic
Build policy enforcement
Build deterministic evaluation engines
Build rules processing
Build agentic orchestration
Build multi-step AI plans
Build deterministic workflows
Build policy checkpoints
Build routing and translation
Build token management
Build request handling
Design PostgreSQL schema
Optimize PostgreSQL queries
Model PostgreSQL data
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Senior engineering team; Leadership; Designers; Product; Sales; Customer success
Full Job Description
## Description hatch I.T. is partnering with Holokai to find a Senior Backend Engineer. See details below: About the Role: Holokai is looking for a backend engineer to build core product alongside their co-founders and senior engineering team. You won’t pull pre-scoped tickets from a backlog. You’ll work with their senior engineers and leadership to decide what to build, then build it well. The Holokai platform spans a user desktop application, policy enforcement engine, an agentic workflow orchestrator, a model-agnostic gateway, and a SaaS management console. You’ll work across all of it, primarily in TypeScript and Go with some Python. The hard parts are genuinely hard, including sub-100ms policy evaluation, multi-model orchestration, and enterprise-grade security. They want someone who stays clear-headed in that complexity. They need engineers who have built and owned critical production running at real scale to serve exacting enterprise customers. That experience leaves a mark: the battle scars that keep you from over-engineering at the expense of reliability and pragmatism. They're heavy AI users in how they build, not just in what they ship. AI-assisted development is core to how this team works; they want someone who puts AI to work but catches it when it’s about to steer them wrong. Write simple code, ship often, and own what you put in production. About Holokai: Holokai is building a platform to accelerate the secure, rational adoption of Enterprise AI. Their product enables organizations to safely deploy AI tools through model access controls, governance guards, and policy enforcement — while still delivering strong user productivity through a desktop chat experience and integrated AI workflows. They are an early-stage startup with pilot customers, rapid product iteration, and direct customer feedback loops. Designers at Holokai work close to product decisions and engineering implementation, not as a downstream function but as a core part of product cre
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