Lead Backend Developer

Bright Vision Technologies • San Diego, CA

1d • $80,000 - $95,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Developer to design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services used by other engineering teams. The role focuses on high-throughput backend platform capabilities, including 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 ideal candidate has deep distributed systems expertise, strong platform-engineering instincts, and a commitment to internal developer experience. The role includes leading multi-quarter platform initiatives that raise the engineering bar across the organization. This is a full-time, direct W2 position that is 100% remote within the United States. Bright Vision Technologies cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions; U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience 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.
• 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 write 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 engineering teams.
• Develop backend platform capabilities for request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing.
• Build systems that handle high traffic volumes with predictable latency and minimal operational toil.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision-making.
• Author technical design documents and clearly present trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering culture through code reviews, design reviews, and onboarding.

What This Job Offers

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