Lead Backend Developer

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Developer for a fully remote role within the United States. You will design, build, and operate core backend platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams, focusing on scalability and low latency.

The ideal candidate brings 6+ years in backend or platform engineering, expertise in distributed systems, and strong experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field.
• 6+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating internal platforms or shared services.
• Design distributed systems with strong consistency, availability, and latency considerations.
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language (Java/Go/Scala/Rust/C++).
• Knowledge of high-throughput messaging systems (Kafka/Pulsar/NATS).
• Experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives and stakeholder management.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to produce design docs.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend platform development for high-throughput systems.
• Design and operate foundational services used by multiple teams.
• Mentor engineers and drive platform engineering best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend languages

Messaging systems

Data storage

Platform ownership

Mentoring

Technical writing

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Pulsar

NATS

Open source

Job description

Lead Backend Developer – 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: Lead Backend Developer
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $80,000–$95,000 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 Lead Backend Developer 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

• 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.