Remote API Solutions Architect - Microservices Lead

Bright Vision Technologies; Sugar Land (TX); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead the design of large-scale microservices and cloud-native ecosystems. You will define service boundaries, governance, and patterns to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable deployments across modern container platforms.

The role requires deep domain-driven design expertise, experience with Kubernetes and service mesh, and fluency in REST/gRPC and event-driven architectures. Remote within the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or 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 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 where appropriate.
• 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.

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

Kubernetes

Envoy/ Istio service mesh

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead the design of large-scale microservices and cloud-native ecosystems. You will define service boundaries, governance, and patterns to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable deployments across modern container platforms.

The role requires deep domain-driven design expertise, experience with Kubernetes and service mesh, and fluency in REST/gRPC and event-driven architectures. Remote within the U.S.