Senior Node.js/TypeScript Engineer - Remote Backend

Bluelight Consulting; Bogotá; Remote; COP 167,400,000 - 256,680,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & bonuses

Generous paid-time-off

Flexible working hours

Work remotely

Continuing education & certifications

Company-sponsored coursework

Job summary

Bluelight Consulting seeks a senior backend software engineer to join a rapidly growing remote-friendly team. You will design and implement scalable, low-latency API services on AWS, primarily using Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL, with a focus on security and multi-tenant architectures.

You will collaborate with frontend engineers and AI-assisted tooling, participate in code reviews, and contribute to continuous delivery pipelines while overlapping US business hours.

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.
• 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

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

REST APIs

SQL

React

CI/CD

Testing

Full stack

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PostgreSQL/AuroraDB

Row-Level Security

node-postgres

node-pg-migrate

AWS Fargate/ECS

Fastify

Zod

Docker

Job description

Bluelight Consulting seeks a senior backend software engineer to join a rapidly growing remote-friendly team. You will design and implement scalable, low-latency API services on AWS, primarily using Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL, with a focus on security and multi-tenant architectures.

You will collaborate with frontend engineers and AI-assisted tooling, participate in code reviews, and contribute to continuous delivery pipelines while overlapping US business hours.