Staff Applications Engineer

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: Staff Applications Engineer

Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $150,000–$190,000 Annually
Experience Required: 10+ 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 Staff Applications Engineer with 10+ years of professional software engineering experience to provide deep technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and drive the design and execution of complex, cross-functional initiatives. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in defining technical strategy, shaping architecture, establishing engineering best practices, and delivering scalable, high-quality software solutions that support long-term business objectives.
Key Responsibilities

- Lead the architecture, design, and execution of large-scale, cross-team engineering initiatives from concept through production.

- Define architectural standards, engineering principles, and reusable design patterns adopted across multiple product and platform teams.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers, influencing engineering excellence across the organization.

- Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering decision-making for mission-critical systems.

- Translate long-term technology strategy into executable engineering roadmaps and technical initiatives.

- Drive improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability of critical applications and platforms.

- Lead incident response for high-impact production issues and establish processes for continuous operational improvement.

- Collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product management, architects, and executive stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities.

- Establish and maintain engineering best practices for software development, testing, documentation, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.

- Conduct code reviews and contribute hands-on development to high-impact components where technical leadership is most valuable.

- Raise the engineering hiring bar by participating in technical interviews, mentoring interviewers, and improving hiring processes.

- Represent engineering in cross-functional planning, prioritization, and roadmap discussions, helping stakeholders make informed technical decisions.

- Author and review architecture documents, technical RFCs, design specifications, and architecture decision records (ADRs) to create lasting technical documentation.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

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10+ years of professional software engineering experience , including significant experience leading large-scale, cross-functional engineering initiatives.

- Proven success designing and delivering complex distributed systems, cloud-native applications, or large-scale enterprise platforms.

- Deep expertise in one or more areas including distributed systems, cloud platforms, microservices architecture, or large-scale data systems.

- Strong programming skills in at least one modern backend language such as Java, C#, Go, Python, or C++ .

- Extensive experience with system architecture, software design patterns, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.

- Demonstrated experience mentoring senior engineers and providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.

- Strong understanding of cloud infrastruct