API Solutions Architect

API Solutions Architect - 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: API Solutions Architect
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 seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern container platforms and cloud-native technology stacks. The role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns such as resilience, observability, and security at scale. The ideal candidate brings hands-on architectural leadership across complex transformations, with a clear point of view on when microservices are the right answer, how to evolve them safely, and how to keep the resulting estate maintainable over the long term. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies aligned with domain-driven design principles. 
• Lead the modernization of legacy monoliths into well-bounded, independently deployable services with clear ownership. 
• Design service communication patterns leveraging REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming as appropriate. Establish API contracts, schema governance, and versioning strategies that enable safe evolution of services over time.
• Architect resilient distributed systems incorporating circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation patterns. 
• Define data ownership models, transactional boundaries, and patterns such as outbox, saga, and CQRS where appropriate. 
• Lead the design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, identity propagation, and shared observability. 
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across critical service domains. 
• Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards optimized for high-frequency, low-risk service releases. 
• Define observability standards including structured logging, distributed tracing, and SLO-driven monitoring. 
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure zero-trust principles, secrets management, and runtime protection are embedded. 
• Mentor engineers and tech leads on microservices best practices and anti-pattern avoidance. 
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on service design proposals across multiple teams. 
• Continuously evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies for adoption based on maturity and strategic fit. 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. 
• Eight or more years of software engineering experience, with several years in architecture roles. 
• Deep expertise in microservices design, domain-driven design, and distributed systems patterns. 
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies. 
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, or C#. 
• Strong understanding of API design, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging. 
• Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems in production. 
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services across at least one major provider. 
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture initiatives spanning multiple teams. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with platform engineering and internal developer platform construction. 
• Familiarity with Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, or comparable service mesh technologies. 
• Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization at scale. 
• Public speaking, open-source contributions, or published technical writing. 
• Experience in regulated industries with strict compliance requirements.  

How to Apply 
Would you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to Jenny@bvteck.com 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.