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Staff Backend Engineer, Licensing
Horizon3.ai. Set technical direction for services representing customer purchases, packaging, enabled capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in backend services, API design, and data modeling, with a strong focus on licensing and entitlement capabilities. Proven ability to lead technical direction and mentor engineers while ensuring system reliability and scalability.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend Services DevelopmentAPI Design and ImplementationSQL and Data ModelingTechnical Leadership and MentorshipCloud-Hosted Services
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Hard Skills
PythonGoJavaTypeScriptSQLDistributed SystemsService ReliabilityData ModelingLicensing and EntitlementsMulti-Tenant SaaS
Soft Skills
Excellent JudgmentMentoring
Tools & Technologies
DockerKubernetesPostgreSQLGraphQLAWSKafkaEvent-Driven SystemsTemporalPrefectProduction Observability Platforms
Industry Keywords
Production-Critical SystemsAccount HierarchiesRBACPartner Account ModelsUsage MeteringBilling-Adjacent Workflows
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGraphQLJavaKafkaKubernetesPostgresPythonSQLTypeScriptGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Set technical direction for services representing customer purchases, packaging, enabled capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits
- Design robust licensing and access-rule models and workflows for direct and MSP/MSPP accounts
- Lead complex initiatives across services and customer-account models while 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, integrations, and tradeoffs affecting customer access and usage
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and technical writing
- Own difficult production problems and drive improvements that reduce recurrence and operational burden
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement
- Shape how licensing and entitlement capabilities scale across direct and partner accounts
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Substantial experience in backend services and APIs
- Track record of leading architecture or technical direction for complex, production-critical systems
- Strong experience with SQL, data modeling, distributed systems, and service reliability
- Experience influencing technical decisions across teams and mentoring engineers
- Excellent judgment balancing correctness, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed
- Deep experience building and operating backend services in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript
- Strong SQL and relational data modeling experience
- Experience with API and service design for production systems
- Experience building cloud-hosted services
- Experience operating containerized applications such as Docker
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or a comparable orchestrator
- Experience with licensing, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing-adjacent workflows, or feature access controls is an advantage
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, account hierarchies, RBAC, or partner account models is an advantage
- Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, event-driven or distributed systems is an advantage
- Familiarity with Kafka or other event-streaming systems, Temporal or Prefect, and production observability platforms is an advantage
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles
- Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave
- Career development opportunities
- Inclusive culture
- Collaborative environment encouraging creativity and out-of-the-box thinking
- Remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location
- Up to 5% travel