Senior Backend Engineer, Licensing

Horizon3.ai

. Build services that determine customer purchases, enabled capabilities, and applicable usage limits .

Posted 10/30/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $199,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining backend services and APIs, with a strong focus on data integrity, testing, and production support. Proficient in modern programming languages and cloud technologies, with a solid understanding of licensing and entitlement workflows.

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Backend Software EngineeringAPI DesignSQL and Relational Database ManagementCloud Services and ContainerizationLicensing and Entitlement Workflows

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Hard Skills

PythonGoJavaTypeScriptSQLPostgreSQLGraphQLDockerKubernetesEvent-Driven Systems

Soft Skills

Effective CollaborationStrong OwnershipJudgment in WorkflowsCommunication of RisksQuality-Minded Approach

Tools & Technologies

AWSKafkaTemporalPrefectProduction Observability Platforms

Industry Keywords

Multi-Tenant SaaSAccount HierarchiesRBACPartner Account ModelsUsage Metering

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGraphQLJavaKafkaKubernetesPostgresPythonSQLTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build services that determine customer purchases, enabled capabilities, and applicable usage limits
Design, build, and maintain services and APIs representing customer purchases, product packaging, capabilities, and usage limits
Own features from technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and production operation
Build and evolve entitlement and usage workflows across direct and MSP/MSPP account models
Partner with Product and adjacent engineering teams to define interfaces and resolve licensing, packaging, and feature-access edge cases
Improve tests, observability, design documentation, runbooks, and support playbooks for business-critical services
Investigate production issues across service boundaries and implement durable fixes
Review code and design proposals and share context with other engineers

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend software
Experience with a modern backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript
Experience designing APIs and data models for business-critical services or customer-facing workflows
Strong SQL and relational database experience, including data integrity and production troubleshooting
Experience with cloud-hosted services and containerized applications such as Docker
Familiarity with Kubernetes or a comparable orchestrator
Strong foundation in testing, observability, and ownership of production services
Strong ownership and judgment when working on customer-impacting workflows where correctness matters
Ability to reason through edge cases and communicate implementation risks and tradeoffs clearly
Quality-minded approach to testing, data integrity, production support, and technical documentation
Effective collaboration with Product and engineering partners; willingness to share knowledge and support teammates
Ability to manage concurrent work while keeping stakeholders informed
Experience with licensing, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing-adjacent workflows, or feature access controls
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, account hierarchies, RBAC, or partner account models
Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, and event-driven or distributed systems
Familiarity with Kafka or other event-streaming systems, workflow tools such as Temporal or Prefect, and production observability platforms
May require up to 5% travel

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles
Career development opportunities
Collaborative environment encouraging creativity and out-of-the-box thinking
Health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your family
Flexible vacation policy
Generous parental leave
Remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location
Inclusive culture and equal opportunity workplace