Senior Server-Side Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies•Raleigh, NC

1d•$100,000 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. We are seeking a Senior Server-Side Engineer focused on high-throughput platform development to design, build, and operate the foundational platforms and shared services that other engineering teams rely on to deliver their products. This role focuses on building backend platform capabilities — request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing — that must handle very high traffic volumes with predictable latency and minimal operational toil.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
6+ years of backend, platform, or software engineering experience.
Strong experience designing and building distributed systems and internal platforms.
Proficiency in Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or C++.
Hands-on experience with Kafka, Pulsar, NATS, or other event-driven technologies.
Strong knowledge of relational, NoSQL, and search databases.
Excellent communication, documentation, and mentoring skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes and platform engineering.
Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
Knowledge of service mesh, workflow orchestration, or platform APIs.
Experience with API versioning and backward compatibility.
Technical blogging, conference speaking, or other community contributions.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services.
Develop backend platform capabilities including request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing.
Ensure platforms handle high traffic volumes with predictable latency and minimal operational toil.
Lead technical projects.
Collaborate across teams.
Mentor junior engineers.