Remote Principal Applications Architect

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Principal Applications Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver scalable distributed systems.

This role represents the highest level of individual technical contribution within the organization, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, reliability architecture, and cross-organizational technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing distributed, high-scale systems in production.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages.
• Strong data modeling and performance tuning skills.
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives across multiple business units.
• Reliability engineering and distributed architectures expertise.
• Leadership and mentoring of senior engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives and define long-term technology strategy.
• Deliver highly scalable, resilient distributed systems and platforms.
• Mentor and elevate senior engineers across the organization.
• Serve as a technical authority across multiple teams and drive cross-team decisions.

Skills

Backend languages

Java

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

Mentoring

Architectural decisions

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Principal Applications Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver scalable distributed systems.

This role represents the highest level of individual technical contribution within the organization, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, reliability architecture, and cross-organizational technical leadership.