Senior Node.js/TypeScript Backend Engineer — Remote

Bluelight Consulting; Sur; Remote; COP 133,920,000 - 212,040,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Generous PTO

Flexible hours

Remote work

Education & training

Certifications

Job summary

Bluelight Consulting is seeking a seasoned backend software engineer to join our rapidly growing team. You will design and implement high-performance APIs, work with Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS, and contribute across the stack when needed.

This role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering reliable, scalable systems for enterprise clients while maintaining best practices and a strong focus on quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software development experience (backend-focused).
• Strong professional 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.
• 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.

Skills

Backend development

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

REST APIs

SQL

React

Testing

CI/CD

Full stack

US hours

Security & multi-tenant

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

AuroraDB

node-postgres

node-pg-migrate

AWS Fargate/ECS

Docker

Fastify

Zod

Job description

Bluelight Consulting is seeking a seasoned backend software engineer to join our rapidly growing team. You will design and implement high-performance APIs, work with Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS, and contribute across the stack when needed.

This role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering reliable, scalable systems for enterprise clients while maintaining best practices and a strong focus on quality.