Remote Senior API & Microservices Architect

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead design and evolution of large-scale microservices on cloud-native stacks. Remote from the U.S., the role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, DDD, and distributed data management.

You will drive resilience, observability, and security at scale, guide cross-team architecture decisions, and ensure maintainable estate over the long term.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with several years in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in microservices design, domain-driven design, and distributed patterns.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and service mesh technologies.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards and boundaries aligned with domain-driven design.
• Lead modernization of legacy monoliths into independently deployable services.
• Design service communication patterns using REST, gRPC, messaging, and event streaming.
• Architect resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation.
• Define data ownership, transactional boundaries, and patterns like outbox, saga, and CQRS.
• Lead design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, identity propagation, and observability.
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis.
• Establish CI/CD and testing standards for high-frequency releases.
• Define observability standards with structured logging and distributed tracing.
• Collaborate with security to embed zero-trust, secrets management, and runtime protection.
• Mentor engineers and lead architecture reviews across teams.
• Evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies for maturity and strategic fit.

Skills

Microservices design

Domain-driven design

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Container orchestration

Service mesh

Java/Go/C#

API design

Event-driven architecture

Production systems

Cloud platforms

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead design and evolution of large-scale microservices on cloud-native stacks. Remote from the U.S., the role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, DDD, and distributed data management.

You will drive resilience, observability, and security at scale, guide cross-team architecture decisions, and ensure maintainable estate over the long term.