Lead Backend Platform Engineer — Remote

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

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Developer to design, build, and operate foundational backend platforms and shared services for high‑throughput systems. The role emphasizes routing, traffic management, data fan‑out, and durable event processing to handle very high traffic with predictable latency.

The ideal candidate has deep distributed systems expertise, strong platform‑engineering instincts, and a track record of leading multi‑quarter initiatives across teams while

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services that other engineering teams rely on.
• Develop backend platform capabilities—request routing, traffic management, data fan‑out, caching layers, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing.
• Lead multi‑quarter platform initiatives across teams and mentor engineers to raise the engineering bar.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems design

Platform engineering

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Mentoring engineers

Backend programming languages

Data storage knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

NATS

Kubernetes

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Developer to design, build, and operate foundational backend platforms and shared services for high‑throughput systems. The role emphasizes routing, traffic management, data fan‑out, and durable event processing to handle very high traffic with predictable latency.

The ideal candidate has deep distributed systems expertise, strong platform‑engineering instincts, and a track record of leading multi‑quarter initiatives across teams while