Backend Application Engineer
About The Position
Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Backend Application Engineer to build and operate foundational platforms and shared services used by other engineering teams. The role focuses on high-throughput platform development, including request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing. The platforms must support high traffic volumes with predictable latency and low operational toil. The ideal candidate brings distributed-systems expertise, strong platform-engineering instincts, a focus on internal developer experience, and experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives. This is a 100% remote, full-time, direct W2 position with Bright Vision Technologies, based in the continental United States. The work is part of the company’s in-house Statement of Work engagement; Bright Vision Technologies is the employer, with no third-party client, vendor, or implementation partner. C2C, 1099, and third-party arrangements are not accepted. No new H1B sponsorship is available, but qualified candidates who require a transfer from a valid H1B visa may apply. A technical coding assessment is mandatory.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
- At least six years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
- Hands-on expertise designing distributed systems, with attention to consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode behavior.
- Advanced proficiency in at least one major backend language, such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
- Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures, using technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.
- Strong working knowledge of data storage systems across relational, key-value, document, and search workloads.
- Experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision-making.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including authoring technical design documents and explaining trade-offs.
- Ability to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through code review, design review, and onboarding contributions.
- Willingness to work directly as a full-time W2 employee of Bright Vision Technologies and contribute to its in-house SOW deliverables.
- Confidence in technical abilities and hands-on experience sufficient to complete the mandatory technical coding assessment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms or contributing to internal developer-platform initiatives at scale.
- Contributions to widely used open-source platform or infrastructure projects.
- Familiarity with control-plane/data-plane patterns, service mesh internals, or workflow-orchestration engines.
- Experience designing platform APIs with strong backward-compatibility and versioning guarantees.
- Public technical writing, conference talks, or other community contributions on platform engineering topics.
Responsibilities
- Design and build internal platform services and shared infrastructure, emphasizing developer experience and operational ergonomics.
- Architect high-throughput, latency-sensitive backend platforms with predictable, bounded tail latency.
- Build durable, replayable event-processing pipelines and asynchronous job-execution platforms.
- Design and operate caching, rate-limiting, and request-shaping layers to protect upstream systems and support safe scaling under bursty workloads.
- Develop platform abstractions, SDKs, and paved-road libraries that let product teams consume capabilities without reimplementing them.
- Establish observability, service-level objectives (SLOs), and capacity-planning practices for platform services.
- Drive multi-region, fault-tolerant, and geo-distributed designs with attention to availability, durability, and graceful degradation.
- Lead incident response for high-impact platform issues, conduct blameless post-mortems, and implement improvements to prevent recurrence.
- Define and enforce platform-wide standards for API design, schema evolution, deployment, and backward compatibility.
- Optimize platform performance through profiling, data-driven tuning, and algorithmic improvements to throughput and cost.
- Partner with infrastructure, security, and SRE teams to meet reliability, compliance, and security obligations.
- Mentor mid-level engineers and lead cross-team architectural discussions.
- Produce technical design documents, decision records, and operational runbooks.
- Evaluate emerging platform technologies, open-source projects, and architectural patterns for potential adoption.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
