Backend Application Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services for multiple product teams. The role focuses on high-throughput, low-latency backend capabilities, data fan-out, caching, and durable event processing to support very large traffic volumes.

The position emphasizes distributed-systems expertise, developer experience, and leadership across teams, with opportunities to mentor engineers and shape platform strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of backend/platform engineering experience.
• Experience building internal platforms or shared services for multiple teams.
• Strong distributed-systems design with attention to consistency, availability, latency, and failure modes.
• Proficiency in backend languages (Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++).
• Knowledge of high-throughput messaging systems (Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS).
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading architectural discussions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal platform services and shared infrastructure used by hundreds of engineers.
• Architect high-throughput, latency-sensitive backend platforms with scalable queueing and caching.
• Build durable, event-driven pipelines and asynchronous job execution platforms.
• Define platform standards for API design, deployment, and versioning.
• Establish observability, SLOs, capacity planning, and incident response practices.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and lead architectural discussions across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

NATS

Job description

Backend Application Engineer -Remote

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.

Job Title: Backend Application Engineer

Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)

Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2

Salary Range: $100,000–$150,000 Annually

Experience Required: 6+ years

Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green CardHolders, EADHolders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Backend 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. The ideal candidate combines deep distributed system expertise with strong platform-engineering instincts, values internal developer experience as a first-class concern, and has a track record of leading multi-quarter platform initiatives that meaningfully raise the engineering bar for the organizations they support.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build internal platform services and shared infrastructure that hundreds of engineers depend on every day, with explicit focus on developer experience and operational ergonomics.
• Architect high-throughput, latency-sensitive backend platforms capable of sustaining very high request volumes with predictable, well-bounded tail latency.
• Build durable, replayable event-processing pipelines and asynchronous job execution platforms that other product teams compose to ship features faster.
• Design and operate caching, rate-limiting, and request-shaping layers that protect upstream systems and enable safe scaling under bursty workloads.
• Develop platform abstractions, SDKs, and paved-road libraries that codify best practices and let product teams consume capabilities without re-implementing them.
• Establish robust observability, SLOs, and capacity-planning practices for platform services, raising the operational bar across the organization.
• Drive multi-region, fault-tolerant, and geo-distributed designs with rigorous attention to availability, durability, and graceful degradation under failure.
• Lead incident response for high-impact platform issues, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive durable engineering improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Define and enforce platform-wide standards around API design, schema evolution, deployment, and backward-compatibility guarantees.
• Optimize platform performance through careful profiling, data-driven tuning, and algorithmic improvements that move the needle on throughput and cost.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, and SRE teams to ensure platform services meet enterprise reliability, compliance, and security obligations.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and lead architectural discussions across teams, helping the broader organization grow in distributed-systems maturity.
• Produce clear technical design documents, decision records, and operational runbooks that make the platform legible to future maintainers.
• Continuously evaluate emerging platform technologies, open-source projects, and architectural patterns for strategic adoption.

Required Qualifications

• 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 track record 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 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.

BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.