Chief Software Architect - Remote, Enterprise Scale

Bright Vision Technologies; Centennial (CO); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Chief Software Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver scalable, resilient distributed systems. This role represents the highest level of technical contribution and requires deep expertise across system design, performance, reliability, and cross-organizational leadership.

The ideal candidate will drive strategic engineering decisions, serve as a technical authority

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven expertise designing distributed, high-scale systems in production.
• Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages.
• Deep understanding of data modeling, system optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives across multiple business units.
• Strong expertise in reliability engineering and distributed architectures.
• Demonstrated leadership in architectural decision-making at enterprise scale.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise-level architectural standards and engineering guardrails.
• Lead design and implementation of scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Architect multi-region, globally distributed platforms with DR in mind.
• Drive modernization, including microservices transformation and platform consolidation.
• Define API governance, data architecture, and service communication patterns.
• Design systems for scalability, availability, and security with capacity planning.
• Evaluate data storage solutions for major workloads and performance.
• Lead reliability engineering and incident response improvements enterprise-wide.
• Conduct architectural reviews and performance audits across platforms.
• Guide teams on concurrency, observability, and optimization strategies.
• Design enterprise observability frameworks: metrics, logs, traces standards.
• Define DevOps, CI/CD, and automation strategy across teams.
• Partner with execs and product on technology roadmap decisions.
• Mentor staff and senior engineers; contribute to talent growth.
• Drive innovation and evaluate emerging technologies for adoption.
• Lead resolution of critical system-level production issues.

Skills

Lead architectural initiatives

Long-term technology strategy

Distributed, high-scale systems design

Java, Go, or C++ backend proficiency

Data modeling and performance tuning

Cross-team technical leadership

Reliability engineering and DR

Architectural decision-making at scale

Mentoring senior engineers

Strong written and verbal comms

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Chief Software Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver scalable, resilient distributed systems. This role represents the highest level of technical contribution and requires deep expertise across system design, performance, reliability, and cross-organizational leadership.

The ideal candidate will drive strategic engineering decisions, serve as a technical authority