Remote API Solutions Architect — Microservices & Cloud

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

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern container platforms and cloud-native stacks. The role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns such as resilience, observability, and security at scale.

The candidate will mentor engineers, define API contracts, governance, and versioning.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of software engineering experience with architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in microservices design and domain-driven design.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and service mesh technologies.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or C#.
• Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards and decomposition strategies.
• Modernize legacy monoliths into independently deployable services.
• Design service communication patterns with REST, gRPC, and messaging.
• Architect resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers and retries.
• Define data ownership and patterns like outbox and CQRS where appropriate.
• Lead design of platform capabilities including service mesh and API gateway.
• Drive CI/CD and testing standards for high-frequency releases.
• Define observability standards and security integrations.

Skills

Microservices design

Domain-driven design

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Service mesh

Java

Go

C#

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio/Linkerd/Envoy

Container orchestration

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern container platforms and cloud-native stacks. The role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns such as resilience, observability, and security at scale.

The candidate will mentor engineers, define API contracts, governance, and versioning.