Remote Lead Backend Engineer - Scalable Distributed Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 750,000 - 751,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design and operate large-scale backend services. You will architect core platforms powering mission-critical workloads, focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has deep distributed systems experience, strong CS fundamentals, and comfort managing trade-offs among consistency, availability, and latency. Remote work in the US is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field.
• 6+ years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go or Scala.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and CAP trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Excellent debugging, documentation, and mentorship abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale backend services.
• Architect core platforms for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Balance consistency, availability, and latency in systems.
• Mentor peers and document engineering decisions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Java/Go/Scala

Performance tuning

Kafka

SQL & NoSQL

Cloud platforms

Root-cause analysis

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

AWS

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design and operate large-scale backend services. You will architect core platforms powering mission-critical workloads, focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has deep distributed systems experience, strong CS fundamentals, and comfort managing trade-offs among consistency, availability, and latency. Remote work in the US is available.