Senior API & Microservices Architect — Remote

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

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead the design of large-scale microservices ecosystems on cloud-native stacks. You will drive service decomposition, API contracts, and resilient patterns across teams.

Remote from the U.S., you will mentor engineers, establish governance for observability, security, and performance, and partner with security and platform teams to ensure scalable, maintainable estates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Eight or more years of software engineering experience, with several years in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in microservices design, domain‑driven design, and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies.
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, or C#.
• Strong understanding of API design, event‑driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging.
• Experience operating high‑traffic, latency‑sensitive systems in production.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services across at least one major provider.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture initiatives spanning multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards and boundaries aligned with domain‑driven design.
• Lead modernization of legacy monoliths into independently deployable services.
• Design service communication patterns and establish API contracts and versioning.
• Architect resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers, retries, and graceful degradation.
• Define data ownership, transactional boundaries, and patterns like outbox and CQRS.
• Lead platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, and observed security.

Skills

Kubernetes

Container orchestration

Service mesh

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Java/Go/C#

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Istio/Envoy

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead the design of large-scale microservices ecosystems on cloud-native stacks. You will drive service decomposition, API contracts, and resilient patterns across teams.

Remote from the U.S., you will mentor engineers, establish governance for observability, security, and performance, and partner with security and platform teams to ensure scalable, maintainable estates.