Senior Node.js/TypeScript Backend Engineer — Remote

Bluelight; Perímetro Urbano Barranquilla; Remote; COP 287,751,000 - 415,641,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary bonuses

PTO

Flexible hours

Remote work

Education & conferences

Certifications

Job summary

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy delivering high-quality applications for clients across the US and LATAM. We seek a backend-focused software engineer with strong Node.js/TypeScript, AWS, and PostgreSQL experience to build secure, scalable APIs and multi-tenant solutions.

You will contribute to challenging projects, collaborate across teams, and grow professionally in a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that values ownership and continuous learning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software development experience (backend-focused).
• Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript.
• Experience building low-latency API services in AWS.
• Experience with scalable RESTful APIs and SDK integrations.
• PostgreSQL/AuroraDB with Row-Level Security (RLS).
• Secure multi-tenant environments and SQL/schema migrations.
• Professional React experience; strong testing incl. integration tests.
• Experience with AI coding assistants and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to overlap US business hours; Bachelor's degree required.
• Extremely ownership-driven, client-focused, detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services with Node.js/TypeScript.
• Build low-latency, scalable RESTful APIs in AWS.
• Implement multi-tenant security and data models (RLS).
• Collaborate on frontend tasks when needed to ship features.
• Write tests and participate in CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

SQL & Migrations

AWS

React

CI/CD

Testing

Security/RLS

Multi-tenant

US Hours

Ownership

Problem Solving

Detail-Oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

node-postgres

node-pg-migrate

Zod

Fastify

AWS Fargate/ECS

Docker

Job description

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy delivering high-quality applications for clients across the US and LATAM. We seek a backend-focused software engineer with strong Node.js/TypeScript, AWS, and PostgreSQL experience to build secure, scalable APIs and multi-tenant solutions.

You will contribute to challenging projects, collaborate across teams, and grow professionally in a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that values ownership and continuous learning.