Remote Lead Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale backend services powering mission-critical workloads.

You will architect core platforms, emphasizing scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices, with deep experience in distributed systems and cloud environments. This role is remote within the U.S. and requires strong technical leadership and mentoring.

Qualifications

• Six+ years of professional backend engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong programming in Java, Go, or Scala; solid knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale, high-throughput backend services.
• Architect core platforms to enable other teams, focusing on scalability and reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend development

Java/Go/Scala

Performance tuning

Capacity planning

Education

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

Tools

Kafka

AWS/Azure/GCP

SQL/NoSQL databases

Kubernetes

Istio/Linkerd

Chaos engineering tools

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale backend services powering mission-critical workloads.

You will architect core platforms, emphasizing scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices, with deep experience in distributed systems and cloud environments. This role is remote within the U.S. and requires strong technical leadership and mentoring.