Chief Software Architect - Remote, Enterprise-Scale

Bright Vision Technologies; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Chief Software Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives and define long-term technology strategy. This role represents the highest level of individual technical contribution, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, reliability, and cross-functional leadership.

This role also involves mentoring senior engineers, driving modernization efforts, and partnering with product management on roadmaps, while steering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Ten or more 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, system design principles, and engineering guardrails that shape engineering work across multiple business units.
• Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that operate at global scale.
• Architect multi-region, fault-tolerant, and globally distributed platforms with rigorous attention to availability, durability, and disaster recovery.
• Drive enterprise modernization initiatives, including microservices transformation, platform consolidation, and legacy decommissioning.
• Define API governance, data architecture, and service communication patterns adopted across the engineering organization.
• Design systems for extreme scalability, availability, and security, including detailed capacity planning and resilience modeling.
• Evaluate and select high-performance data storage solutions appropriate to each major workload class.
• Lead reliability engineering and incident response improvements, raising the bar on operational excellence enterprise-wide.
• Conduct deep architectural reviews and performance audits across multiple platforms.
• Guide engineering teams on concurrency, scalability, observability, and optimization strategies.
• Design observability and monitoring frameworks at enterprise scale, defining standards for metrics, logs, and traces that work consistently across many teams and many production environments.
• Define DevOps, CI/CD, and automation strategy across engineering teams and platforms.
• Partner with executive leadership and product management on technology roadmap decisions.
• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and contribute substantively to talent growth across the organization.
• Drive innovation and continuously evaluate emerging technologies for strategic adoption.
• Lead the resolution of critical system-level production issues that require deep architectural insight.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Back-end development

Leadership

Education

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

Tools

Java

Go

C++

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Chief Software Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives and define long-term technology strategy. This role represents the highest level of individual technical contribution, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, reliability, and cross-functional leadership.

This role also involves mentoring senior engineers, driving modernization efforts, and partnering with product management on roadmaps, while steering