Senior TypeScript Backend Engineer.

Accountabilities

You will augment an experienced engineering team, contributing directly to the development of the workflow-orchestration platform according to evolving business priorities. Your responsibilities will include:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and platform components using TypeScript.

• Contribute hands-on as a technical lead, balancing implementation work with technical guidance and engineering decision-making.

• Build and implement workflows using orchestration engines such as Temporal, Dapr, or AWS Step Functions.

• Design distributed systems and event-driven architectures using message queues and publish/subscribe technologies such as Kafka.

• Implement reliable workflow execution patterns, including retries, idempotency, and fault tolerance.

• Design and develop composable, polyglot workflow steps within the orchestration framework.

• Evaluate workflow orchestration engines and infrastructure platforms, providing technical recommendations and build-versus-buy assessments.

• Work with Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift to support application deployment, scaling, and networking.

• Translate architectural design documents into practical implementation plans and production-ready solutions.

• Contribute to the integration of LLM and AI-agent tool usage into platform workflows as directed.

• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and subject-matter experts to address technical challenges and adapt to changing priorities.

• Apply sound engineering judgment in an evolving environment where requirements and project scope are still being defined.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a hands-on senior backend engineer with technical leadership experience and a strong foundation in distributed systems and workflow orchestration. Required qualifications include:

• Demonstrated experience at a technical lead or team lead level in TypeScript development, with the ability to write production code rather than focusing exclusively on architecture reviews or delegation.

• Direct, hands-on experience building solutions with workflow-orchestration engines such as Temporal, Dapr, or AWS Step Functions.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architecture.

• Practical experience with message queues and publish/subscribe systems, such as Kafka or comparable technologies.

• Solid knowledge of reliability patterns, including retries, idempotency, and fault-tolerant processing.

• Experience with Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift, including deployment, scaling, and networking fundamentals.

• Enterprise architecture experience and the ability to work independently from technical design documents.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the confidence to make sound technical decisions in fast-moving environments.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with architects, engineers, and external technical specialists while adapting to shifting priorities.

Desirable qualifications:

• Experience evaluating infrastructure platforms and making build-versus-buy recommendations.

• Background in regulated industries or financial services, particularly familiarity with governance requirements and audit-trail considerations.

• Experience integrating LLMs or AI-agent tool usage into platform workflows.

• Familiarity with containerized, polyglot workflow architectures.

Benefits

• Hourly compensation ranging from $50 to $90 USD, depending on experience and qualifications.

• Full-time engagement.

• Fully remote position within the United States.

• Opportunity to work on an innovative agentic workflow-orchestration platform.

• Exposure to modern technologies, including TypeScript, Temporal, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Kafka, and AI-agent integrations.

• Opportunity to contribute hands-on to technical architecture and infrastructure decisions.

• Collaboration with experienced, hands-on engineers and technical specialists.