Senior Microservices Architect - Remote, Enterprise-Scale

Bright Vision Technologies; Glastonbury (CT); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems on modern container platforms and cloud-native stacks.

The role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns like resilience, observability, and security at scale. Mentor engineers and drive architecture reviews across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with several years in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in microservices design, domain‑driven design, and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies.

Responsibilities

• Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies aligned with domain‑driven design principles.
• Lead modernization of legacy monoliths into independently deployable services with clear ownership.
• Design service communication patterns using REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming.
• Establish API contracts, schema governance, and versioning strategies for safe evolution.
• Architect resilient distributed systems with circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation.

Skills

Microservices design

Domain-driven design

Distributed systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Envoy

Istio

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems on modern container platforms and cloud-native stacks.

The role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns like resilience, observability, and security at scale. Mentor engineers and drive architecture reviews across teams.