Chief Software Engineer

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Bellevue, WA, USA
In-Office
100K-150K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Software • Consulting
The Role
Leads enterprise-wide software architecture and technology strategy, designing globally distributed, highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems. Drives modernization, API and data architecture governance, reliability engineering, observability, DevOps, CI/CD, performance optimization, and disaster recovery initiatives. Partners with executives and product leaders on roadmaps, resolves critical production issues, conducts architectural reviews, and mentors senior engineering talent across multiple teams and business units.
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Chief Software Engineer - 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:
Chief Software Engineer

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 highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver highly scalable, resilient distributed systems. This role represents the highest level of individual technical contribution within the organization, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, reliability architecture, and cross-organizational technical leadership. The ideal candidate will drive strategic engineering decisions, serve as a technical authority across multiple teams and platforms, and combine deep technical mastery with mature judgment, broad influence, and the ability to mentor and elevate senior engineers across the organization. 
Key Responsibilities 
  • Define enterprise-level architectural standards, system design principles, and engineering guardrails that shape engineering work across multiple business units. 
  • Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that operate at global scale. 
  • Architect multi-region, fault-tolerant, and globally distributed platforms with rigorous attention to availability, durability, and disaster recovery. 
  • Drive enterprise modernization initiatives, including microservices transformation, platform consolidation, and legacy decommissioning. 
  • Define API governance, data architecture, and service communication patterns adopted across the engineering organization. 
  • Design systems for extreme scalability, availability, and security, including detailed capacity planning and resilience modeling. 
  • Evaluate and select high-performance data storage solutions appropriate to each major workload class. 
  • Lead reliability engineering and incident response improvements, raising the bar on operational excellence enterprise-wide. 
  • Conduct deep architectural reviews and performance audits across multiple platforms. 
  • Guide engineering teams on concurrency, scalability, observability, and optimization strategies. 
  • Design observability and monitoring frameworks at enterprise scale, defining standards for metrics, logs, and traces that work consistently across many teams and many production environments. 
  • Define DevOps, CI/CD, and automation strategy across engineering teams and platforms. 
  • Partner with executive leadership and product management on technology roadmap decisions. 
  • Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and contribute substantively to talent growth across the organization. 
  • Drive innovation and continuously evaluate emerging technologies for strategic adoption. 
  • Lead the resolution of critical system-level production issues that require deep architectural insight. 
Required Qualifications 
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. 
  • Ten or more years of professional software engineering experience. 
  • Proven expertise designing distributed, high-scale systems in production. 
  • Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages. 
  • Deep understanding of data modeling, system optimization, and performance tuning. 
  • Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives across multiple business units. 
  • Strong expertise in reliability engineering and distributed architectures. 
  • Demonstrated leadership in architectural decision-making at enterprise scale. 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture. 
Preferred Qualifications 
  • Public technical contributions (papers, talks, OSS leadership). 
  • Experience driving multi-year transformation programs. 
  • Familiarity with FinOps and large-scale cost optimization. 
  • Exposure to regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government). 
  • Advanced degree or equivalent industry recognition. 
How to Apply 
Would you like to know more about this opportunity? 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
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 
 

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
  • Ten or more years of professional software engineering experience
  • Proven expertise designing distributed, high-scale systems in production
  • Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages
  • Deep understanding of data modeling, system optimization, and performance tuning
  • Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives across multiple business units
  • Strong expertise in reliability engineering and distributed architectures
  • Demonstrated leadership in architectural decision-making at enterprise scale
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture
  • Public technical contributions, such as papers, talks, or open-source leadership
  • Experience driving multi-year transformation programs
  • Familiarity with FinOps and large-scale cost optimization
  • Exposure to regulated industries, including financial services, healthcare, or government
  • Advanced degree or equivalent industry recognition
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The Company
53 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Bright Vision Technologies is a minority-owned organization founded in July 2020 and based in New Jersey, USA. The company specializes in delivering top-tier staffing and IT consulting services, including custom computer programming and systems design. Additionally, they are a product engineering firm with a flagship AI-powered talent intelligence and enterprise automation platform called Lumina, which helps transform IT into a strategic asset for their valued partners.

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