Chief Software Architect — Remote for Global-Scale Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; 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 highly scalable, resilient distributed systems. This role represents the highest level of technical contribution, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, and cross-organizational leadership.

The candidate will drive strategic engineering decisions, mentor senior engineers, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• 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, system design principles, and engineering guardrails across units.
• Lead design and implementation of scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems at global scale.
• Architect multi-region, fault-tolerant platforms with high availability and disaster recovery.
• Drive modernization initiatives, including microservices transformation and platform consolidation.
• Define API governance, data architecture, and service communication patterns.
• Design systems for high scalability, availability, and security with capacity planning.
• Evaluate high-performance data storage solutions for major workloads.
• 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.
• Define observability and monitoring standards for metrics/logs/traces.
• Define DevOps, CI/CD, and automation strategy across teams and platforms.
• Partner with leadership on technology roadmap decisions.
• Mentor staff and senior engineers and contribute to talent growth.
• Drive innovation and evaluate emerging technologies for adoption.
• Lead resolution of critical system-level production issues.

Skills

Java

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Reliability engineering

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

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 highly scalable, resilient distributed systems. This role represents the highest level of technical contribution, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, and cross-organizational leadership.

The candidate will drive strategic engineering decisions, mentor senior engineers, and