Senior Remote Backend Architect

Bright Vision Technologies; Highlands Ranch (CO); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Solutions Architect for a 100% remote role across the United States. You will design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services powering critical workloads.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in distributed systems, strong CS fundamentals, and hands-on experience with Java/Go/Scala, Kafka, and cloud platforms. You will drive architectural decisions, observability, and performance, while mentoring engineers and

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.
• Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills.

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 workload requirements.
• 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, technical design discussions, and trade-off analyses.
• Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, and circuit breakers.
• Design and operate data stores at scale (relational, key-value, document, search).
• Build comprehensive observability into services with logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical backend 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 multi-year technical roadmaps and ensure alignment with direction.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for architecture and runbooks.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Go

Scala

Kafka

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio/Linkerd

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Solutions Architect for a 100% remote role across the United States. You will design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend services powering critical workloads.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in distributed systems, strong CS fundamentals, and hands-on experience with Java/Go/Scala, Kafka, and cloud platforms. You will drive architectural decisions, observability, and performance, while mentoring engineers and