Senior Backend Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems to design, build, and operate large-scale, high-throughput backend services that power mission-critical workloads.

Key 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 appropriate to each workload’s requirements.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with strong observability, idempotency, and graceful degradation patterns.
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost, using profiling, benchmarking, and load testing.
• Lead detailed architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and trade-off analyses.
• Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and saga workflows.
• Design and operate data stores at scale, including relational, key-value, document, and search engines.
• Build comprehensive observability into services with structured 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, design, and operational rigor.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams to drive reliability improvements and reduce operational toil.
• Contribute to long-term architecture and platform strategy, helping shape multi-year technical roadmaps and ensuring near-term execution remains aligned with the broader engineering direction.
• Maintain comprehensive, current technical documentation — including architecture diagrams, design decisions, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures — so that the system remains supportable, auditable, and easy to onboard new engineers onto over time.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.
• 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.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based platforms in production.
• Exposure to service-mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Familiarity with chaos engineering practices and tools.
• Open-source contributions to relevant distributed systems projects.

Qualifications

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For immediate consideration, please send your resume to [email protected] or contact us at (908) 505-3544. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com.