Senior Backend Platform Engineer - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; Farmington Hills (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is hiring a Senior Backend Developer for a fully remote role in the U.S. You will design, build, and operate foundational platform services used by multiple engineering teams.

The role focuses on high-throughput backend capabilities, including routing, traffic management, caching, and durable event processing. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in backend or platform engineering, strong distributed systems expertise, and experience mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, SE, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams.
• Develop backend platform capabilities: routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, async jobs, durable event processing.
• Handle very high traffic volumes with low latency and minimal toil.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives and influence engineering culture.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Backend languages (Java/Go/Scala/Rust/

Messaging systems (Kafka/Pulsar/NATS)

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/SE or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Open-source contributions

API design

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is hiring a Senior Backend Developer for a fully remote role in the U.S. You will design, build, and operate foundational platform services used by multiple engineering teams.

The role focuses on high-throughput backend capabilities, including routing, traffic management, caching, and durable event processing. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in backend or platform engineering, strong distributed systems expertise, and experience mentoring engineers.