Senior Backend Platform Lead (Remote) – Multi-Tenant & Secure

horizon3ai

United States

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

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Health, vision, and dental coverage
Flexible vacation
Parental leave

Job summary

horizon3ai seeks a seasoned Senior Backend Architect to provide technical leadership for backend services enabling partners to manage work across multiple customer environments. You will shape multi-tenant architecture, oversee production outcomes, and mentor teams across product and engineering.

The role combines strategic direction with hands-on engineering, focusing on secure data boundaries, scalable APIs, and reliable operations.

Qualifications

  • Eight+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend/API focus.
  • Track record of setting technical direction or leading architecture for production multi-tenant or distributed systems.
  • Strong data modeling, reliability, and security boundary expertise in customer-facing systems.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for partner platform services, including account hierarchies and tenant isolation.
  • Lead architecture for managing customer and sub-customer accounts and partner relationships.
  • Establish patterns for secure data boundaries, API design, observability, and reliability.
  • Stay hands-on with complex technical work and resolve ambiguous requirements.
  • Align platform capabilities with partner needs across product, customer-facing, and engineering teams.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and documentation; own production issues.

Skills

Technical leadership
Backend architecture
Multi-tenant systems
API design
Security boundaries
Cloud services
Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Job description

horizon3ai seeks a seasoned Senior Backend Architect to provide technical leadership for backend services enabling partners to manage work across multiple customer environments. You will shape multi-tenant architecture, oversee production outcomes, and mentor teams across product and engineering.

The role combines strategic direction with hands-on engineering, focusing on secure data boundaries, scalable APIs, and reliable operations.

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