Senior Backend Systems Engineer - Remote, Distributed

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Backend Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, high-throughput backend services powering mission-critical workloads. You will architect core platforms, focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend experience with distributed systems, strong Java/Go/Scala skills, Kafka, cloud platforms, and a proven track record delivering robust production systems.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka.
• Experience operating systems at scale, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with both relational 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.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and collaborate with SRE/Platform teams on reliability.

Skills

Java

Go

Scala

Distributed systems

Education

BS/MS in CS

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Backend Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, high-throughput backend services powering mission-critical workloads. You will architect core platforms, focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend experience with distributed systems, strong Java/Go/Scala skills, Kafka, cloud platforms, and a proven track record delivering robust production systems.