Backend Software Engineer
About The Position
Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Backend Software Engineer focused on high-throughput platform development. The engineer will design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services used by other engineering teams to deliver products. The work includes backend platform capabilities such as request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing. These systems must support very high traffic volumes with predictable latency and minimal operational toil. The role calls for distributed systems expertise, platform-engineering instincts, attention to internal developer experience, and a record of leading multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve engineering organizations. This is a full-time, direct W2 position that is 100% remote in the United States, with an annual salary range of $115,000–$175,000. Applicants may include U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates; the company cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
- A demonstrated track record of building and operating internal platforms or shared services used by multiple engineering teams.
- Hands-on expertise designing distributed systems, with rigorous 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.
- Proven experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision-making.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to author clear technical design documents and present trade-offs.
- Ability to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through code review, design review, and onboarding contributions.
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, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
- Develop backend platform capabilities for request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing.
- Build and operate high-throughput systems that provide predictable latency and minimize operational toil.
- Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision-making.
- Author technical design documents and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering culture through code reviews, design reviews, and onboarding.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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