Remote API Solutions Architect for Microservices

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

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced API Solutions Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices on cloud-native stacks. This remote, full-time role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, and scalable, secure architectures.

You will drive architecture decisions, define standards for API contracts, and mentor engineers across teams while aligning with security and observability practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Eight or more years of software engineering experience, with several years in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in microservices design, domain-driven design, and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages like Java, Go, or C#.
• Strong knowledge of API design, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging.
• Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems in production.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies.
• Lead modernization of legacy monoliths into independently deployable services.
• Design service communication patterns using REST, gRPC, messaging, and event streaming.
• Architect resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation.
• Define data ownership models and patterns such as outbox, saga, and CQRS where appropriate.
• Lead design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, and observability.
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across services.
• Establish CI/CD and testing standards for high-frequency service releases.
• Define observability standards with structured logging and distributed tracing.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce zero-trust and secret management.

Skills

Microservices design

Domain-driven design

Distributed systems

REST/gRPC API design

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Envoy

CI/CD

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced API Solutions Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices on cloud-native stacks. This remote, full-time role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, and scalable, secure architectures.

You will drive architecture decisions, define standards for API contracts, and mentor engineers across teams while aligning with security and observability practices.