Principal Backend Developer

About the Role

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on high-throughput platform development to design, build, and operate the foundational platforms and shared services that other engineering teams rely on to deliver their products. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Responsibilities

• Build backend platform capabilities including request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing
• Handle very high traffic volumes with predictable latency and minimal operational toil
• Combine deep distributed systems expertise with strong platform-engineering instincts
• Value internal developer experience as a first-class concern
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives that meaningfully raise the engineering bar for the organizations supported

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline
• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience
• Demonstrated track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams
• Strong, hands-on expertise designing distributed systems with rigorous attention to consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode behavior
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++
• Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS
• Strong working knowledge of data storage systems across relational, key-value, document, and search workloads
• Proven experience leading multi-quarter platform initiatives across teams, including stakeholder management and technical decision-making
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to author crisp technical design documents and present trade-offs clearly
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through code review, design review, and onboarding contributions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms or contributing to internal developer-platform initiatives at scale
• Contributions to widely-used open-source platform or infrastructure projects
• Familiarity with control-plane / data-plane patterns, service mesh internals, or workflow-orchestration engines
• Experience designing platform APIs with strong backward-compatibility and versioning guarantees
• Public technical writing, conference talks, or other community contributions on platform engineering topics

Pay

$120,000–$170,000 annually.

Schedule

Full-time, 100% Remote (United States).

Visa Sponsorship

U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.