Backend Solutions Architect

Bright Vision Technologies • Highlands Ranch, CO

1d • $100,000 - $150,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Backend Solutions Architect, described in the job summary as a Senior Backend Engineer, to design, build, and operate large-scale, high-throughput backend services for mission-critical workloads. The role will architect core platforms used by other engineering teams, with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and sound engineering practices. The successful candidate will apply strong computer science fundamentals and practical experience operating distributed systems at scale, while navigating trade-offs among consistency, availability, and latency.

This is a full-time, direct W2 position that is 100% remote in the United States. The stated salary range is $100,000–$150,000 annually. Candidates including U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates 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.
• Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, including significant experience with distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or a similar language.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka.
• Experience operating systems at scale, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and NoSQL data stores.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based platforms in production.
• Exposure to service-mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering practices and tools.
• Open-source contributions to relevant distributed systems projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, Scala, or similar high-performance languages.
• Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies suited to workload requirements.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with observability, idempotency, and graceful-degradation patterns.
• Optimize latency, throughput, and cost using profiling, benchmarking, and load testing.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and trade-off analyses.
• Implement failure-handling patterns, including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and saga workflows.
• Design and operate data stores at scale, including relational, key-value, document, and search engines.
• Build service observability with structured logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical backend services.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and model strong code quality, design, and operational rigor.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams to improve reliability and reduce operational toil.
• Contribute to long-term architecture and platform strategy, shape multi-year technical roadmaps, and align near-term execution with broader engineering direction.
• Maintain current technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design decisions, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures.

What This Job Offers

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