Senior Backend Architect - Remote, Scalable Distributed Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; SOUTH PLAINFIELD (NJ); Remote; USD 100,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and operate large-scale distributed systems powering critical workloads. This 100% remote opportunity focuses on scalability, reliability, and performance with modern languages and cloud services.

You will architect core platforms, mentor engineers, and collaborate with SRE and platform teams to improve reliability while reducing toil. Requires deep CS fundamentals and 10+ years backend experience in distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar.
• 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).

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 appropriate to each workload’s requirements.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with strong 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.
• 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.

Skills

Java

Go

Scala

Distributed systems

SQL

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and operate large-scale distributed systems powering critical workloads. This 100% remote opportunity focuses on scalability, reliability, and performance with modern languages and cloud services.

You will architect core platforms, mentor engineers, and collaborate with SRE and platform teams to improve reliability while reducing toil. Requires deep CS fundamentals and 10+ years backend experience in distributed systems.