Remote Node.js/TypeScript Backend Engineer — Impact & Growth

Bluelight Consulting; Valparaíso; Remote; CLP 114,723,000 - 152,964,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & bonuses

Generous paid time off

Flexible working hours

Work remotely

Continuing education & certifications

Job summary

Bluelight Consulting is seeking an experienced backend-focused software developer to join our growing team. You will build high-quality API services, work across Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript, and contribute to frontend tasks when needed.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable solutions for clients and multi-tenant environments. You will collaborate with a diverse team, leverage AWS and modern tooling, and participate in design discussions and testing practices to ensure robust software

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software development experience (backend-focused).
• Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Experience building low-latency API services in AWS.
• Experience building scalable RESTful APIs.
• Experience with SDK integrations to other services.
• Experience with PostgreSQL/AuroraDB, including Row-Level Security (RLS).
• Experience building secure multi-tenant environments.
• Comfortable writing raw SQL and managing schema migrations (e.g., node-postgres, node-pg-migrate).
• Professional experience with React.
• Strong testing practices, including integration tests against real databases and failure-mode/fault-injection testing.
• Experience working with AI coding assistants as part of daily development.
• CI/CD application creation and maintenance skills.
• Solid understanding of full stack development, with the ability to contribute to frontend work when needed.
• Substantial background working with large, complex systems.
• Ability to overlap US business hours.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality applications for clients in a fast-paced consultancy environment.
• Collaborate on backend services, APIs, and frontend when needed.
• Ensure security, performance, and scalability across multi-tenant architectures.
• Partner with clients and team members to deliver reliable software solutions.
• Contribute to testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

RESTful APIs

SDK Integrations

PostgreSQL

Row-Level Security

Multi-tenant

SQL

React

Testing (integration)

AI coding assistants

CI/CD

Full stack

Large-scale systems

US business hours overlap

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

node-postgres

node-pg-migrate

Fastify

Zod

AWS Fargate/ECS

AuroraDB

Job description

Bluelight Consulting is seeking an experienced backend-focused software developer to join our growing team. You will build high-quality API services, work across Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript, and contribute to frontend tasks when needed.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable solutions for clients and multi-tenant environments. You will collaborate with a diverse team, leverage AWS and modern tooling, and participate in design discussions and testing practices to ensure robust software