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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Orkes Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Object-Oriented Software Development, ReactJS, Spring-boot, Multi-Cloud, Backend, Golang
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-backend-engineer-full-stack-capable-orkes-company-8906405

## About the Role

* 7+ years of experience
 * Deep Object Oriented language experience (at least one; eg Java, Go, C++)
 * Sets patterns and leads reviews in a large codebase
 * Depth in one of AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud Platforms
 * Drives ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from problem to measured outcome
 * Owns operational architecture - on-call, observability, SLOs, blast-radius containment
 * Ships full-stack vertical slices in React/TS when needed
 * Distributed-systems architect - has designed systems with real consistency/availability tradeoffs at scale
 * AI-coding experience - look for those who prescribe/tell AI exactly what to do vs those who ask AI to make judgment calls and decisions

Nice-to-haves: all-three-clouds hands-on; Java/Spring Boot preferred; Netflix Conductor/Temporal; Go; multi-tenant control-plane at scale; chaos/perf engineering. Experience with building for portability vs. cloud-native calls

## Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Orkes, you will work at the frontier of agentic workflow development, building the platform that defines how enterprises scale AI agent interactions. You will own the architecture of our multi-cloud control plane, designing critical guardrails and orchestration layers that make complex agentic workflows production-ready. This is a unique opportunity to build mission-critical infrastructure that transforms experimental AI prototypes into scalable business engines.


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