Senior Backend Platform Engineer – Remote

Socket.dev; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is hiring a Senior Backend Developer to design and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams. You will focus on building platform capabilities like routing, traffic management, data fan-out, and durable processing to sustain very high traffic with low latency.

The role requires hands-on expertise in distributed systems, at least one major backend language (Java/Go/Scala/Rust/C++), and experience with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Demonstrated track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services.
• Strong, hands-on expertise designing distributed systems with consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode behavior.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar, NATS).
• Strong working knowledge of data storage systems across relational, key-value, document, and search workloads.
• Proven experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision-making.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to author crisp technical design documents and present trade-offs clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through code review, design review, and onboarding contributions.

Responsibilities

• We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer focused on high-throughput platform development to design, build, and operate the foundational platforms and shared services that other engineering teams rely on to deliver their products.
• This role focuses on building backend platform capabilities - request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing - for very high traffic with predictable latency and minimal operational toil.
• The ideal candidate combines deep distributed systems expertise with platform-engineering instincts, values internal developer experience, and has a track record of leading multi-quarter platform initiatives that raise the engineering bar.

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is hiring a Senior Backend Developer to design and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams. You will focus on building platform capabilities like routing, traffic management, data fan-out, and durable processing to sustain very high traffic with low latency.

The role requires hands-on expertise in distributed systems, at least one major backend language (Java/Go/Scala/Rust/C++), and experience with