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See details below:\nAbout the Role:\nHolokai 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.\nThe 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.\nThey 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.\nAbout Holokai:\nHolokai 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.\nThey 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 creation.\nWhat you'll work on:\nBackend services: APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and core business logic\nPolicy enforcement: deterministic evaluation engines, rules processing, and classification\nAgentic orchestration: multi-step AI plans using LLM’s, executed as deterministic workflows with policy checkpoints built in\nModel gateway: routing and translation across LLM providers, token management, and request handling\nData layer: PostgreSQL schema design, query optimization, and data modeling\nProduction ownership: you monitor, debug, and fix what you ship\nRequired Skills:\nStrong production experience in TypeScript and Go (Python a plus): real services running in production, not scripts and notebooks\nDesigning and building APIs (REST, gRPC, or similar) and backend service architecture\nRelational databases, PostgreSQL: schema design, query performance, migrations\nReading and extending code you didn’t write, quickly and confidently\nFluent with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar); you use them daily and they make you meaningfully faster\nProduction experience with AWS\nContainerized deployments (Docker, ECS, EKS, or similar)\nA bias for shipping working software over polishing design docs\nSelf-directed and comfortable with minimal structure in a fast-moving start-up environment\nU.S. Citizenship required\nBachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\nNice to have:\nLLM APIs and AI/ML pipelines: prompt engineering, model integration, token economics\nPolicy engines or rules-based systems (OPA/Rego, decision engines, or similar)\nMessage queues and event-driven architectures (RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka)\nFrontend chops (React); not the focus, but handy for closing the loop on a feature\nEnterprise security, compliance, or governance experience (e.g. SOC 2, GDPR, etc.)\nWho thrives here:\nEngineers who write code every day and want to keep it that way\nPeople who use AI tools seriously and keep hunting for the next edge\nSelf-starters who take a problem, find the approach, and deliver without being told how\nPeople drawn to the applied science of AI who want to make enterprise AI work for real\nHow we work:\nAt a start-up our size and stage, there's no living in a silo. Engineering, product, sales, and customer success all own success together. We work hard and support each other, and no amount of great code makes up for being difficult to work with. 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