What You'll DoAs a Senior Backend Engineer on the Admin Experience team, you'll build the services and APIs that let NodeZero customers administer their organizations securely. The work spans user access, parent-child account relationships, account settings, and administration capabilities such as roles, access controls, and audit logs. You'll own substantial features from technical design through rollout and production support, applying sound data modeling and authorization practices to multi-tenant workflows. You'll collaborate with Product, frontend engineers, and partner teams to make administration capabilities reliable, understandable, and consistent across the platform.
Responsibilities- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for user access, account hierarchies, settings, and administration workflows.
- Own features from design and implementation through tests, safe rollout, observability, and production support.
- Apply secure authorization and data-modeling practices to customer and parent-child account relationships.
- Investigate production issues and improve service reliability, performance, and observability.
- Write and review maintainable code, automated tests, design documentation, runbooks, and support guidance.
- Partner with Product, frontend engineers, and adjacent platform teams to deliver cohesive customer workflows.
- Mentor teammates through design discussions, code reviews, and collaborative problem solving.
What You'll Bring- Ability to own complex work end to end, manage competing priorities, and communicate risks and tradeoffs early.
- A customer- and security-conscious approach to designing administration and access workflows.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and commitment to high-quality production software.
- Clear technical writing and effective collaboration with Product and engineering partners
- Interest in sharing knowledge and helping other engineers grow.
Required Education / Experience- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production software with a modern programming language.
- Experience designing and operating backend services and APIs, and taking complex work from design through production.
- Strong SQL and relational database experience, including data modeling and debugging or improving queries.
- Experience building services on a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and working with Docker or other containerized applications.
- Demonstrated focus on testing, production reliability, observability, and clear technical communication.
- Experience with every listed language or framework is not required; depth in relevant areas and the ability to learn are important.
What Sets You Apart?- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, RBAC, SSO, audit logs, delegated administration, or account hierarchy models.
- Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
- Familiarity with feature flags, metrics, tracing, alerting, and tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience in cybersecurity or building customer-facing platform capabilities used by multiple
Travel RequiredWe are a fully remote company, and this job may require up to
5% of travel to be successful.
Compensation and ValuesAt Horizon3, we believe that our people are our greatest asset, and our compensation philosophy reflects this core value. We are committed to fostering an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and rewarded for their contributions. Our compensation structure is designed to be fair, competitive, and transparent, ensuring that every team member is recognized and compensated equitably across roles, levels, and locations.
In accordance with various State's transparency regulations, we provide the following salary range information for this position:
- Base salary range $199,000 - $235,000 annually. The exact salary will be determined based on the selected candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and relevant skills.
- Additional compensation: All full-time roles are eligible for an equity package in the form of stock options.
Perks of Horizon3- Inclusive Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.
- Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career development opportunities.
- Innovative Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Hybrid & Remote Work: We embrace a mix of remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location, including our Chicago office, where some roles require regular in-office presence.
- Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive salary, equity and benefits. Our benefits include health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave.
Other DutiesPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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