Lead Backend Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • San Diego, CA

1d • $75,000 - $95,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is hiring a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, high-throughput backend services that support 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 bring strong computer science fundamentals and practical experience operating distributed systems at scale, and will navigate trade-offs involving consistency, availability, and latency. This is a full-time, direct W2 position that is 100% remote within the United States. The company is unable to 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 or a related discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant experience in 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, build, and operate large-scale, high-throughput backend services for mission-critical workloads.
• Architect core platforms that other engineering teams build on.
• Focus platform engineering on scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.
• Operate distributed systems at scale and navigate trade-offs between consistency, availability, and latency.
• Lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams (preferred qualification).

What This Job Offers

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