Backend Software Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Chesterfield (MO); Remote; USD 115,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services. The role emphasizes platform engineering, internal tooling, and performance optimization for multiple engineering teams.

The candidate will lead cross-team platform initiatives, mentor engineers, and craft scalable design documents to guide architectural decisions while delivering reliable, low-latency services in a fully remote U.S. environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating internal platforms or shared services.
• Strong design for distributed systems focusing on consistency, availability, latency, and failure modes.
• Ability to author crisp technical design documents and present trade-offs clearly.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational backend platforms and shared services used by multiple teams.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives with cross-team collaboration.
• Ensure high throughput, low latency, and reliable operation of platform components.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to code reviews and onboarding.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Stakeholder management

Technical design docs

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Pulsar

NATS

Job description

Job Title: Backend Software Engineer

Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)

Position Type:Full-time, Direct W2

Salary Range:$115,000–$175,000 Annually

Experience Required:6+ years

Sponsorship:U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, 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 Backend Software 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 systems 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.