Senior Software Architect (AWS/Node.js) - Remote

Bluelight Consulting

Santiago

Remote

CLP 114,723,000 - 172,084,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonuses

Generous paid-time-off

Flexible working hours

Work remotely

Continuing education and trainings

Certifications support

Job summary

Bluelight Consulting seeks a senior software architect to design and deliver high-performing, secure systems for global clients. You will shape architecture for low-latency services in AWS, ensure audit-ready event logs, and guide cross-functional teams through ADRs and design decisions.

A Bachelor’s degree and leadership mindset are essential. You will collaborate with product and security reviews, overlap US business hours, and advocate best practices while pursuing ambitious, impactful

Qualifications

8+ years professional software development experience, with 3+ years in an architecture-focused role
Deep experience designing low-latency service architectures in AWS, including judgment about when distributed components earn their place
Experience designing to explicit latency budgets (p95/p99), including synchronous durable commits in hot paths
Experience designing audit/evidence systems: append-only event logs, versioned or bitemporal fact models, and deterministic historical replay
Experience designing fail-open/fail-closed/degraded-state semantics and outage postures
Proven experience architecting secure multi-tenant environments, including tradeoff analysis (RLS vs. schema-per-tenant vs. database-per-tenant)
Deep experience with PostgreSQL/AuroraDB and Row-Level Security (RLS) at a data-modeling and architecture level
Expertise in designing and building scalable RESTful APIs
Experience architecting SDK integrations to other services
Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript across the stack
Experience building capacity models and cloud cost/performance projections (AWS Well-Architected Framework)
Experience establishing technical standards, conducting architecture and code reviews, and mentoring engineering teams
Experience producing architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical decision records (ADRs)
Experience presenting and defending architecture decisions in client engineering and security reviews
Experience working with AI coding assistants as part of daily development
Substantial background architecting large, complex systems end-to-end
Ability to overlap US business hours
Bachelor's degree required
Extreme ownership and accountability for deliverables
Client-focused dedication to team commitments
Best practices knowledge and adherence
Strong problem-solving ability and technical leadership skills
Positive mindset and can-do attitude
Meticulous attention to detail