Remote Senior Backend Platform Lead

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Developer to design, build, and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams. You will focus on scalable routing, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous jobs, and durable event processing to meet very high traffic with predictable latency.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years in backend or platform engineering, hands-on distributed systems expertise, and a track record leading multi-quarter

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, software engineering, or related field.
• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Proven track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services.
• Strong, hands-on expertise designing distributed systems with attention to consistency, availability, latency, and failure modes.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging using Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.
• Strong working knowledge of data storage across relational, key‑value, document, and search workloads.
• Proven experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives with stakeholder management and technical decision-making.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including ability to document designs clearly.
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and operation of backend platform capabilities for high-traffic systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend development

Backend languages

High-throughput messaging

Messaging systems (Kafka/Pulsar/NATS)

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Open-source contributions

Platform APIs design

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Developer to design, build, and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams. You will focus on scalable routing, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous jobs, and durable event processing to meet very high traffic with predictable latency.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years in backend or platform engineering, hands-on distributed systems expertise, and a track record leading multi-quarter