Senior Backend Engineer — Licensing & Entitlements

horizon3ai; United States; A distancia; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Horizon3 seeks a Staff Backend Engineer for the Licensing, Usage & Entitlements team to provide hands-on technical leadership for services that manage NodeZero packaging, entitlements, and usage enforcement in a remote, scalable SaaS environment.

You will partner with Product and Engineering to ensure correct product access patterns, design durable data models, and guide cross-service migrations, while mentoring engineers and shaping production reliability.

Formación

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend services and APIs.
• Experience leading architecture or technical direction for production-critical systems.
• Strong judgment balancing correctness, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and collaborating across teams.
• Excellent communication and design rationale in writing.

Responsabilidades

• Set technical direction for services that represent customer purchases, packaging, entitlements, and usage limits.
• Design robust models and workflows applying licensing and access rules across direct and MSP/MSPP accounts.
• Lead complex initiatives across services and customer-account models, remaining hands-on in implementation.
• Establish patterns for data correctness, safe migrations, API evolution, observability, and production support.
• Partner with Product and engineering teams on requirements, integration points, and tradeoffs affecting customer access and usage.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and clear technical writing.
• Own resolution of difficult production problems and drive improvements that reduce recurrence and operational burden.

Conocimientos

Backend systems

APIs

Mentoring engineers

Architecture leadership

Communication

Data correctness

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

Temporal

Prefect

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Descripción del empleo

Horizon3 seeks a Staff Backend Engineer for the Licensing, Usage & Entitlements team to provide hands-on technical leadership for services that manage NodeZero packaging, entitlements, and usage enforcement in a remote, scalable SaaS environment.

You will partner with Product and Engineering to ensure correct product access patterns, design durable data models, and guide cross-service migrations, while mentoring engineers and shaping production reliability.