Senior Temporal Expert (5+ yrs)

Temporal Expert
Experience: 5+ Years
Work Mode: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Temporal Expert with strong hands-on expertise in designing, developing, and deploying workflow orchestration solutions using Temporal.io / Temporal Platform.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for building reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant, and production-ready workflows, while integrating Temporal with enterprise applications, microservices, databases, and external systems.
Key Responsibilities
Design and develop Temporal Workflows and Activities for complex business processes.
Build durable, fault-tolerant, and scalable workflows using Temporal.
Develop and manage Workers, Task Queues, Signals, Queries, and Timers.
Implement workflow patterns including retries, timeouts, error handling, and compensation.
Integrate Temporal workflows with REST APIs, microservices, databases, and external systems.
Troubleshoot workflow failures, performance issues, and production incidents.
Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and production support for Temporal applications.
Develop reusable workflow components following clean coding and engineering best practices.
Collaborate with architects, developers, and business teams to translate requirements into effective workflow solutions.
Support the deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting of Temporal applications in cloud and production environments.
Required Skills
6+ years of overall software development experience.
Strong hands-on experience with Temporal.io / Temporal Platform.
Excellent understanding of Temporal Workflows, Activities, and Workers.
Hands-on experience with Task Queues, Signals, Queries, Timers, Retries, and Timeouts.
Strong programming experience in at least one of Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript.
Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems.
Good knowledge of REST APIs, databases, and event-driven architectures.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and production support experience.
Good to Have
Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience with Kafka or other messaging platforms.
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
Experience migrating existing orchestration/business processes to Temporal.
Experience working with enterprise-scale distributed systems.
Preferred Candidate Profile
Strong hands-on and practical experience with Temporal in production environments.
Ability to design robust workflows for complex, long-running, and distributed business processes.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Good understanding of distributed workflow orchestration and fault-tolerant system design.
Ability to work independently in a remote contract environment.

Work arrangement
Yes