Senior Backend Developer

Bright Vision Technologies • Monroe Township, MI

1d • $100,000 - $150,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Developer focused on high-throughput platform development. The role designs, builds, and operates foundational platforms and shared services that other engineering teams rely on. Core platform capabilities include 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 brings deep distributed-systems expertise and strong platform-engineering instincts, treats internal developer experience as a first-class concern, and has led multi-quarter platform initiatives that raise the engineering bar across the organizations they support. The position is full-time, direct W2, and 100% remote within the United States. The annual salary range is $100,000–$150,000. 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, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• 11 or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Strong 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 crisp technical design documents and present trade-offs clearly.
• Demonstrated 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 backend platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams.
• Develop platform capabilities for request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing.
• Build systems that handle very 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 technical 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