API Solutions Architect

Bright Vision Technologies • Sugar Land, TX

1d • $100,000 - $150,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern container platforms and cloud-native technology stacks. The role focuses on service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns including resilience, observability, and security at scale. The architect will provide hands-on leadership across complex transformations and guide decisions about when and how to adopt microservices and maintain them over time.

This is a full-time, direct W2 position that is 100% remote in the United States. The listed salary range is $100,000–$150,000 annually. The posting identifies the role as an API Solutions Architect, while its summary describes the need for a seasoned Microservices Architect.

Applicants who are U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, or candidates seeking an H-1B transfer are encouraged to apply. The company cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Eight or more years of software engineering experience, including several years in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in microservices design, domain-driven design, and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies.
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, or C#.
• Strong understanding of API design, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging.
• Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems in production.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services across at least one major provider.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture initiatives spanning multiple teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with platform engineering and internal developer platform construction.
• Familiarity with Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, or comparable service mesh technologies.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization at scale.
• Public speaking, open-source contributions, or published technical writing.
• Experience in regulated industries with strict compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies aligned with domain-driven design principles.
• Lead modernization of legacy monoliths into well-bounded, independently deployable services with clear ownership.
• Design service communication patterns using REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming as appropriate.
• Establish API contracts, schema governance, and versioning strategies that support safe service evolution.
• Architect resilient distributed systems using patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation.
• Define data ownership models, transactional boundaries, and patterns such as outbox, saga, and CQRS where appropriate.
• Lead design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, identity propagation, and shared observability.
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across critical service domains.
• Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards for high-frequency, low-risk service releases.
• Define observability standards, including structured logging, distributed tracing, and SLO-driven monitoring.
• Collaborate with security teams to embed zero-trust principles, secrets management, and runtime protection.
• Mentor engineers and tech leads on microservices best practices and avoiding anti-patterns.
• Lead architecture reviews and guide service design proposals across multiple teams.
• Evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies for adoption based on maturity and strategic fit.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior