Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; Farmington Hills (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services powering mission-critical workloads.

The role focuses on architecting core platforms used by multiple teams, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. You will trade off consistency, availability, and latency while maintaining clean engineering practices and strong documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, or Scala.
• Experience with high-throughput messaging systems like Kafka.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Excellent debugging, documentation, and mentorship skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services powering mission-critical workloads.
• Architect core platforms used by multiple engineering teams to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Balance consistency, availability, and latency while delivering high-performance systems.

Skills

Java

Go

Scala

Distributed systems

Kafka

SQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

Mentorship

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services powering mission-critical workloads.

The role focuses on architecting core platforms used by multiple teams, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. You will trade off consistency, availability, and latency while maintaining clean engineering practices and strong documentation.