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Senior Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems
Bright Vision TechnologiesSenior Backend Engineer designing and implementing large-scale backend systems for distributed applications. Contributing to scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications at Bright Vision Technologies.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaNoSQLScalaSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- 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
Requirements
What you’ll need- 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
Benefits
Comp & perks- Comprehensive benefits
- Competitive compensation packages
- Supportive work-life balance
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaGoScaladistributed systemsAPIsdata partitioningprofilingSQLNoSQLKafka
Soft Skills
communicationmentorshipleadershiptechnical designincident responsedocumentationcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingoperational rigor
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer Science