Remote API Solutions Architect: Microservices & Cloud-Native

Bright Vision Technologies; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies seeks an API Solutions Architect to lead large-scale microservices on cloud-native stacks. The role emphasizes service decomposition, API contracts, and resilient distributed systems.

You will drive architecture decisions, mentor teams, and collaborate with security and DevOps to deliver high-velocity releases while maintaining high availability across the platform. Remote US-based role with competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Must have deep experience in microservices design and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong understanding of API contracts, versioning, and schema governance.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or C# with production-grade systems.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards and service boundaries.
• Modernize legacy monoliths into independently deployable services.
• Design communication patterns using REST, gRPC, and async messaging.
• Architect resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers and retries.
• Define data ownership, CQRS, and saga patterns where applicable.
• Lead platform capabilities like service mesh, API gateway, and observability.
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis.
• Establish CI/CD and testing standards for high-frequency releases.
• Define observability standards with tracing and structured logging.
• Collaborate with security to embed zero-trust and secret management.
• Mentor engineers and lead architecture reviews across teams.
• Evaluate new cloud-native technologies for strategic fit.

Skills

Microservices

Domain-driven design

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

API design

Backend programming

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd/Envoy)

REST/gRPC

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies seeks an API Solutions Architect to lead large-scale microservices on cloud-native stacks. The role emphasizes service decomposition, API contracts, and resilient distributed systems.

You will drive architecture decisions, mentor teams, and collaborate with security and DevOps to deliver high-velocity releases while maintaining high availability across the platform. Remote US-based role with competitive salary.