Remote Senior Backend Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Cranberry Township (Butler County); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a Senior Backend Developer for a 100% remote role in the United States. You will design, build, and operate foundational platform services handling high traffic with low latency.

Required: 11+ years in backend or platform engineering, distributed-systems expertise, and proficiency in Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++. Sponsorship is limited to certain visa categories; US citizens, GC, EAD, and H-1B transfer candidates welcome.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• 11+ years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Demonstrated track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services.
• Strong, hands-on expertise designing distributed systems with consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode behavior.
• Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar, NATS).
• Strong knowledge of relational, key-value, document, and search data stores.
• Proven experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives with stakeholder management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including design documents and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational backend platform capabilities.
• Focus on request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching layers, and durable event processing.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives and collaborate with multiple engineering teams.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Platform engineering

Stakeholder management

Technical design documents

Mentoring engineers

Communication skills

Education

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

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

NATS

Java

Go

Scala

Rust

C++

Kubernetes

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a Senior Backend Developer for a 100% remote role in the United States. You will design, build, and operate foundational platform services handling high traffic with low latency.

Required: 11+ years in backend or platform engineering, distributed-systems expertise, and proficiency in Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++. Sponsorship is limited to certain visa categories; US citizens, GC, EAD, and H-1B transfer candidates welcome.