Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Large-Scale Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; Cranberry Township (Butler County); Remote; USD 100,000 - 175,000; 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 with a bias toward scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of backend experience, deep distributed-systems knowledge, and strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Scala. This is a 100% remote U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a 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 message 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, Scala, or similar high-performance languages.
• Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with observability, idempotency, and graceful degradation patterns.
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost, using profiling, benchmarking, and load testing.
• Lead detailed architecture reviews, technical design discussions, 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 and ensuring near-term execution remains aligned with the broader engineering direction.
• Maintain comprehensive, current technical documentation - including architecture diagrams, design decisions, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures - so that the system remains supportable, auditable, and easy to onboard new engineers onto over time.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

System design

Mentorship

Communication

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Go

Scala

Kafka

AWS

Azure

GCP

SQL

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 with a bias toward scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of backend experience, deep distributed-systems knowledge, and strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Scala. This is a 100% remote U.S.