Senior Backend Platform Engineer - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, and operate foundational backend platforms and shared services for multiple teams. This remote U.S. role emphasizes high throughput, low latency, and platform engineering with a focus on internal developer experience.

The ideal candidate has 11+ years in backend or platform engineering, deep distributed-systems expertise, and strong communication to document trade-offs and lead cross-team efforts.

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed systems with strong consistency, availability, latency.
• Proven ability to lead multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams.
• Strong communication and ability to author design documents.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend platform capabilities for high throughput.
• Lead multi-team platform initiatives and drive technical decisions.
• Mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through reviews and onboarding.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Technical leadership

Technical documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Software Eng

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka/Pulsar/NATS

Open-source platforms

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, and operate foundational backend platforms and shared services for multiple teams. This remote U.S. role emphasizes high throughput, low latency, and platform engineering with a focus on internal developer experience.

The ideal candidate has 11+ years in backend or platform engineering, deep distributed-systems expertise, and strong communication to document trade-offs and lead cross-team efforts.