Senior Backend Systems Engineer (Remote)

Bright Vision Technologies; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build and operate scalable distributed backend services powering mission-critical workloads. You will craft core platforms enabling other teams, balancing consistency, availability and latency with a pragmatic mindset.

The role is 100% remote within the continental United States, full-time direct W2 employment, with a competitive base salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, or Scala.
• Experience with Kafka and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, Scala, or similar high-performance languages.
• Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies for workloads.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with observability and idempotency.
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost with profiling and load testing.
• Lead architecture reviews and trade-off analyses.
• Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and saga workflows.
• Design and operate data stores including relational and NoSQL systems.
• Build observability with logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical services.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and lead by example in code quality and operational rigor.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams to improve reliability and reduce toil.
• Contribute to long-term architecture and multi-year roadmaps.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Go

Scala

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

Cloud platforms

Observability

Debugging

Mentorship

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

AWS

Azure

GCP

PostgreSQL

NoSQL databases

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build and operate scalable distributed backend services powering mission-critical workloads. You will craft core platforms enabling other teams, balancing consistency, availability and latency with a pragmatic mindset.

The role is 100% remote within the continental United States, full-time direct W2 employment, with a competitive base salary and benefits.