Holokai

Technology

SeniorEngineer,Backend

$155–215k ~AI est. Washington, District of Columbia, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Senior Engineer, Backend at Holokai. Skills: Backend engineering, TypeScript, Go, AI/ML, Policy enforcement, Orchestration. Build core product. Decide what to build”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Debugging; Troubleshooting

Eligibility Requirements

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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