Remote Senior Backend Architect - Distributed Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services powering mission-critical workloads. You will architect core platforms used by multiple engineering teams with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend experience, strong fundamentals in distributed systems, and hands-on expertise with Java/Go/Scala, Kafka, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput messaging systems such as Kafka.
• Experience operating systems at scale, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with both relational and NoSQL data stores.
• Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, or Scala.
• Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with observability.
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost.
• Lead architecture reviews and trade-off analyses.
• Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and saga workflows.
• Design and operate data stores at scale, including relational, key-value, document, and search engines.
• Build comprehensive observability into services with structured logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical backend services.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and lead by example in code quality, design, and operational rigor.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams to drive reliability improvements and reduce operational toil.
• Contribute to long-term architecture and platform strategy, helping shape multi-year technical roadmaps.
• Maintain comprehensive, current technical documentation — including architecture diagrams, design decisions, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java Go Scala

Kafka

Cloud platforms

Debugging

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio/Linkerd

Chaos engineering tools

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services powering mission-critical workloads. You will architect core platforms used by multiple engineering teams with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend experience, strong fundamentals in distributed systems, and hands-on expertise with Java/Go/Scala, Kafka, and cloud platforms.