Senior Backend Platform Engineer - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; Chesterfield (MO); Remote; USD 115,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services. The role emphasizes platform engineering, internal tooling, and performance optimization for multiple engineering teams.

The candidate will lead cross-team platform initiatives, mentor engineers, and craft scalable design documents to guide architectural decisions while delivering reliable, low-latency services in a fully remote U.S. environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating internal platforms or shared services.
• Strong design for distributed systems focusing on consistency, availability, latency, and failure modes.
• Ability to author crisp technical design documents and present trade-offs clearly.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational backend platforms and shared services used by multiple teams.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives with cross-team collaboration.
• Ensure high throughput, low latency, and reliable operation of platform components.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to code reviews and onboarding.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Stakeholder management

Technical design docs

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Pulsar

NATS

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput backend platforms and shared services. The role emphasizes platform engineering, internal tooling, and performance optimization for multiple engineering teams.

The candidate will lead cross-team platform initiatives, mentor engineers, and craft scalable design documents to guide architectural decisions while delivering reliable, low-latency services in a fully remote U.S. environment.