Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, Scalable Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; Woodbridge 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. You will architect core platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has deep distributed systems experience, strong CS fundamentals, and hands-on work with Kafka and cloud platforms.

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.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with observability and idempotency.
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost with profiling and load testing.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and trade-off analyses.
• 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.

Skills

Java

Go

Scala

Distributed systems

Education

BSc/MSc CS

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. You will architect core platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has deep distributed systems experience, strong CS fundamentals, and hands-on work with Kafka and cloud platforms.