Remote API Solutions Architect - Microservices Lead

Bright Vision Technologies

Plymouth (MN)

Remote

USD 100,000 - 150,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect for 100% remote work in the United States. You will lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems on cloud-native stacks, guiding service decomposition, data ownership, and secure, observable architectures.

Ideal candidates have deep domain-driven design experience, Kubernetes mastery, and strong track record in architecting resilient, scalable systems.

Qualifications

Eight or more years of software engineering experience, with 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 at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, or C#.
Strong understanding of API design, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging.
Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems in production.
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services across at least one major provider.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrated ability to lead architecture initiatives spanning multiple teams.

Responsibilities

Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies aligned with domain-driven design principles.
Lead the modernization of legacy monoliths into well-bounded, independently deployable services with clear ownership.
Design service communication patterns leveraging REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming as appropriate.
Architect resilient distributed systems incorporating circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation patterns.
Define data ownership models, transactional boundaries, and patterns such as outbox, saga, and CQRS.
Lead the design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, identity propagation, and shared observability.
Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across critical service domains.
Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards optimized for high-frequency, low-risk service releases.
Define observability standards including structured logging, distributed tracing, and SLO-driven monitoring.
Collaborate with security teams to ensure zero-trust principles, secrets management, and runtime protection are embedded.
Mentor engineers and tech leads on microservices best practices and anti-pattern avoidance.
Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on service design proposals across multiple teams.
Continuously evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies for adoption based on maturity and strategic fit.