Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Distributed Systems Lead

Bright Vision Technologies; Monroe Township (NJ); 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 backend services powering mission-critical workloads. This fully remote US role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and performance.

You will architect core platforms, mentor engineers, and collaborate with SRE and platform teams to reduce operational toil while shaping multi-year technical roadmaps and maintaining thorough runbooks and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Ten or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.
• 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).
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills.

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 to fit workload requirements.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with observability and idempotency.
• Optimize latency, throughput, and cost via profiling, benchmarking, and load testing.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical design discussions.
• Implement robust failure-handling patterns (retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads).
• Design and operate data stores at scale (relational, NoSQL, document, search).
• Build 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 architecture roadmaps and concrete execution plans.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and runbooks for onboarding.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Go

Scala

Kafka

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

SQL/NoSQL

Debugging/root-cause analysis

Mentorship

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale backend services powering mission-critical workloads. This fully remote US role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and performance.

You will architect core platforms, mentor engineers, and collaborate with SRE and platform teams to reduce operational toil while shaping multi-year technical roadmaps and maintaining thorough runbooks and documentation.