Senior Backend Engineer – Remote, Distributed Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; Monroeville (Allegheny County); Remote; USD 100,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services for mission-critical workloads with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance. You will shape core platforms used by multiple engineering teams, balancing consistency, availability, and latency.

The role requires deep CS fundamentals and practical experience operating distributed systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with distributed systems focus.
• Strong programming in Java, Go, or Scala.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts including consensus, replication, and CAP.
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput messaging such as Kafka.

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.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with observability and idempotency.
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost via profiling and load testing.
• Lead architecture reviews, design discussions, and trade-off analyses.
• Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and sagas.
• Design and operate data stores at scale (relational, NoSQL, KV, document, search).
• Build comprehensive observability with logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical services.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and promote code quality and operational rigor.
• Collaborate with SRE and platform teams to improve reliability and reduce toil.
• Contribute to multi-year architectural roadmaps and ensure alignment with strategy.
• Maintain up-to-date architecture diagrams, runbooks, and configuration references.

Skills

Java

Go

Scala

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL databases

Performance tuning

Observability / monitoring

Mentorship / leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services for mission-critical workloads with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance. You will shape core platforms used by multiple engineering teams, balancing consistency, availability, and latency.

The role requires deep CS fundamentals and practical experience operating distributed systems at scale.