Remote Senior Backend Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Andover (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams. This role focuses on backend platform capabilities — routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous jobs, and durable event processing — to handle very high traffic with predictable latency.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and uphold internal developer experience as a first-class

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Proven track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Strong, hands-on expertise designing distributed systems with rigorous attention to consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode behavior.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.
• Strong working knowledge of data storage systems across relational, key-value, document, and search workloads.
• Proven experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision-making.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to author crisp technical design documents and present trade-offs clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through code review, design review, and onboarding contributions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the foundational platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams.
• Focus on backend platform capabilities — routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives and coordinate with stakeholders to raise engineering maturity.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Messaging systems

Data storage knowledge

Mentoring engineers

Technical design docs

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or related field

Six+ years backend/platform engineering experience

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

NATS

Kubernetes

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams. This role focuses on backend platform capabilities — routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous jobs, and durable event processing — to handle very high traffic with predictable latency.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and uphold internal developer experience as a first-class