Remote Lead Backend Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Developer to design, build, and operate high‑throughput backend services for our cloud platforms. This 100% remote role requires strong distributed systems expertise and leadership to drive platform initiatives across engineering teams.

You will work with Java/Go/Scala/Rust, Kafka, and various data stores, mentor engineers, and contribute to design documents, with a salary range of $80,000 to $95,000 per year.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Demonstrated track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Strong, hands‑on expertise designing distributed systems with rigorous attention to consistency, availability, latency, and failure‑mode behavior.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep understanding of high‑throughput messaging, streaming, and event‑driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.
• Strong working knowledge of data storage systems across relational, key‑value, document, and search workloads.
• Proven experience leading multi‑quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision‑making.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to author crisp technical design documents and present trade‑offs clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through code review, design review, and onboarding contributions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core backend platforms and shared services.
• Implement high‑throughput routing, traffic management, data fan‑out, caching layers, and durable event processing.
• Lead multi‑quarter platform initiatives across teams with stakeholder management.
• Write and present clear technical design documents and trade‑offs.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Backend languages

Messaging systems

Data storage

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/SE

Tools

Kubernetes

Open‑source projects

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Developer to design, build, and operate high‑throughput backend services for our cloud platforms. This 100% remote role requires strong distributed systems expertise and leadership to drive platform initiatives across engineering teams.

You will work with Java/Go/Scala/Rust, Kafka, and various data stores, mentor engineers, and contribute to design documents, with a salary range of $80,000 to $95,000 per year.