Senior Backend Platform Engineer — Remote

Socket.dev; Cranberry Township (Butler County); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Developer focused on high-throughput platform development to design, build, and operate foundational services that enable other engineering teams to deliver products.

Ideal candidates combine deep distributed-systems expertise with strong platform-engineering instincts, mentor engineers, and drive multi-quarter initiatives that raise engineering standards and operational reliability across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Strong, hands-on expertise designing distributed systems with consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate foundational backend platform services.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives with cross-team collaboration.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering culture through design reviews and onboarding.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Backend languages

Messaging systems

Data stores

Kubernetes

Mentoring

Technical design

Stakeholder management

Open-source

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/SE

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Developer focused on high-throughput platform development to design, build, and operate foundational services that enable other engineering teams to deliver products.

Ideal candidates combine deep distributed-systems expertise with strong platform-engineering instincts, mentor engineers, and drive multi-quarter initiatives that raise engineering standards and operational reliability across the organization.