Senior Node.js & TS Backend Engineer - Remote, Fast-Paced

Bluelight; Palmira; Remote; COP 12,000,000 - 24,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonuses

Generous paid-time-off

Flexible working hours

Work remotely

Continuing education and training

Job summary

Bluelight is looking for a senior backend-focused software engineer to join our expanding team. You will design and build high-quality applications with Node.js/TypeScript, deliver scalable RESTful APIs on AWS, and ensure secure multi-tenant environments.

With 5+ years of experience and a strong grounding in PostgreSQL, RLS, and frontend collaboration, you will overlap US business hours and contribute to challenging projects for clients across the Americas. Remote work options available.

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.
• Extreme ownership and accountability for deliverables.
• Client-focused dedication to team commitments.
• Best practices knowledge and adherence.
• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Positive mindset and can-do attitude.
• Meticulous attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services with Node.js/TypeScript for scalable APIs.
• Collaborate with frontend and other teams to deliver high-quality applications.
• Ensure secure multi-tenant environments and low-latency performance.
• Contribute to building, testing, and deploying software in AWS.
• Participate in code reviews and maintain quality standards.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

REST APIs

SQL

PostgreSQL

RLS

Multi-tenant

React

CI/CD

Full Stack

US Hours

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

AWS Fargate

Fastify

Zod

node-postgres

pg-migrate

Job description

Bluelight is looking for a senior backend-focused software engineer to join our expanding team. You will design and build high-quality applications with Node.js/TypeScript, deliver scalable RESTful APIs on AWS, and ensure secure multi-tenant environments.

With 5+ years of experience and a strong grounding in PostgreSQL, RLS, and frontend collaboration, you will overlap US business hours and contribute to challenging projects for clients across the Americas. Remote work options available.