Principal Backend Developer

Posted 3 Days Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office
100K-150K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Software • Consulting
The Role
Lead design, build, and operate high-throughput, latency-sensitive backend platforms and shared services. Build event-processing pipelines, caching and rate-limiting, observability/SLOs, multi-region fault-tolerant systems, and developer-facing SDKs. Drive incidents, mentor engineers, produce design docs/runbooks, and partner with infra, security, and SRE teams to raise platform reliability and developer experience.
Summary Generated by Built In
Principal 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: Principal Backend Developer
Location: 100% Remote (United States)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $100,000–$150,000 Annually
Experience: 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 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 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 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.
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) 650-6699. 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, Software Engineering, or 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 attention to consistency, availability, latency, and failure modes.
  • 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 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 authoring technical design documents and presenting trade-offs.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture through code review, design review, and onboarding.
  • Successful completion of a mandatory technical coding assessment.
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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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