Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)

<span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to create scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a skilled Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems) to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of transforming business processes through technology. </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.</span></span><br> <h1 style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:11px;"><span style="font-size:15pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)</span></span></h1><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Job Title:</b> Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Location:</b> 100% Remote (Continental United States)</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Position Type:</b> In-house Bright Vision Technologies SOW engagement (no third-party client or vendor)</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Experience:</b> 6+ years<br><strong>Salary Range : </strong>$100k to $150k per annnum</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Sponsorship:</b> No new H1B sponsorship available. H1B transfers welcomed for qualified candidates.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Employment Type:</b> Full-time, direct W2 with Bright Vision Technologies (no C2C, no 1099, no third-party)<br><b>Engagement:</b> Long-term, multi-year, aligned to the Bright Vision SOW delivery roadmap</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Compensation:</b> Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.</span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Employment Terms & Visa Policy</span></b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>This is a 100% remote, full-time, direct W2 position with Bright Vision Technologies.</b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>This role is part of Bright Vision Technologies’ in-house Statement of Work (SOW) engagement.</b> The client, end customer, and employer for this position is Bright Vision Technologies — there is no third-party client, vendor, or implementation partner involved.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">We do not engage in C2C, 1099, or third-party arrangements for this role.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>BUT STRICTLY NO C2C/1099/3RD PARTY COMPANIES. ALL OUR ROLES ARE W2 AND NO 3RD PARTY BROKERING PLEASE.</b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Candidates must be willing to work directly as a full-time W2 employee of Bright Vision Technologies and contribute to our in-house SOW deliverables.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">No new H1B sponsorship is available for this role.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>However, candidates who are currently on a valid H1B visa and require a transfer are welcome to apply. We will support H1B transfers for qualified candidates.</b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">For every role, a technical coding assessment is mandatory. Please apply only if you are confident in your technical abilities and hands-on experience.</span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Job Summary</span></b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">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. In this role you will architect the core platforms that other engineering teams build on, focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and clean engineering practices. The ideal candidate will combine strong fundamentals in computer science with practical, battle-tested experience operating distributed systems at scale, and will be comfortable navigating the trade-offs between consistency, availability, and latency.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Key Responsibilities</span></b></span></span><ul style="margin-bottom:4px;"><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, Scala, or similar high-performance languages.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies appropriate to each workload’s requirements.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with strong observability, idempotency, and graceful degradation patterns.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost, using profiling, benchmarking, and load testing.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Lead detailed architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and trade-off analyses.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and saga workflows.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Design and operate data stores at scale, including relational, key-value, document, and search engines.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Build comprehensive observability into services with structured logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical backend services.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Mentor mid-level engineers and lead by example in code quality, design, and operational rigor.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Partner with SRE and platform teams to drive reliability improvements and reduce operational toil.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Required Qualifications</span></b></span></span><ul style="margin-bottom:4px;"><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Experience operating systems at scale, including capacity planning and performance tuning.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Strong SQL skills and experience with both relational and NoSQL data stores.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills.</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Preferred Qualifications</span></b></span></span><ul style="margin-bottom:4px;"><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based platforms in production.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Exposure to service-mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Familiarity with chaos engineering practices and tools.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Open-source contributions to relevant distributed systems projects.</span></span></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">How to Apply</span></b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Would you like to know more about this opportunity?</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">For immediate consideration, please send your resume to jaya@bvteck.com or contact us at (908) 505-3545. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com.</span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">We recognize that our people are our strength, and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Position offered by “No Fee Agency.”</span></span><br> <p>Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement</p> <p>Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.</p> <p>BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.</p>

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