Lead Backend Developer

**Lead Backend Developer – Remote** Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. **Job Title:** Lead Backend Developer **Location:** 100% Remote (U.S.) **Position Type:** Full-time, Direct W2 **Salary Range:** $100,000–$150,000 Annually **Experience Required:** 6+ years **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. **Job Summary** We are seeking a Lead Backend Developer 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 role focuses on building backend platform capabilities — request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing — that must handle very high traffic volumes with predictable latency and minimal operational toil. The ideal candidate combines deep distributed systems expertise with strong platform-engineering instincts, values internal developer experience as a first-class concern, and has a track record of leading multi-quarter platform initiatives that meaningfully raise the engineering bar for the organizations they support. **Key Responsibilities** - Design and build internal platform services and shared infrastructure that hundreds of engineers depend on every day, with explicit focus on developer experience and operational ergonomics. - Architect high-throughput, latency-sensitive backend platforms capable of sustaining very high request volumes with predictable, well-bounded tail latency. - Build durable, replayable event-processing pipelines and asynchronous job execution platforms that other product teams compose to ship features faster. - Design and operate caching, rate-limiting, and request-shaping layers that protect upstream systems and enable safe scaling under bursty workloads. - Develop platform abstractions, SDKs, and paved-road libraries that codify best practices and let product teams consume capabilities without re-implementing them. - Establish robust observability, SLOs, and capacity-planning practices for platform services, raising the operational bar across the organization. - Drive multi-region, fault-tolerant, and geo-distributed designs with rigorous attention to availability, durability, and graceful degradation under failure. - Lead incident response for high-impact platform issues, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive durable engineering improvements that prevent recurrence. - Define and enforce platform-wide standards around API design, schema evolution, deployment, and backward-compatibility guarantees. - Optimize platform performance through careful profiling, data-driven tuning, and algorithmic improvements that move the needle on throughput and cost. - Partner with infrastructure, security, and SRE teams to ensure platform services meet enterprise reliability, compliance, and security obligations. - Mentor mid-level engineers and lead architectural discussions across teams, helping the broader organization grow in distributed-systems maturity. - Produce clear technical design documents, decision records, and operational runbooks that make the platform legible to future maintainers. - Continuously evaluate emerging platform technologies, open-source projects, and architectural patterns for strategic adoption. **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 operati…