Senior Node.js/TypeScript Engineer - Remote & Flexible

Bluelight; Palmira; Remote; COP 287,825,000 - 415,747,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonuses

Generous paid-time-off

Flexible working hours

Work remotely

Continuing education and certificates

Job summary

Bluelight is seeking a senior backend-focused software engineer to join our rapidly growing remote team. You will design and implement low-latency API services, work with Node.js/TypeScript, and contribute across the stack.

This remote role overlaps US business hours, requires a strong focus on quality, security, and scalability, and offers competitive compensation, generous time off, and ongoing education.

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, design, and QA.
• Ensure security, scalability, and high availability of services.
• Integrate with external SDKs and data sources.
• Contribute to frontend work when needed and improve developer tooling.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

RESTful APIs

PostgreSQL

Row-Level Security

Multi-tenant

SQL

React

Testing

CI/CD

Full stack

US hours overlap

AWS IAM/Security

Node-postgres

pg-migrate

AI coding assistants

Ownership

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Fastify

Zod

AWS Fargate

ECS

Docker

node-postgres

node-pg-migrate

Job description

Bluelight is seeking a senior backend-focused software engineer to join our rapidly growing remote team. You will design and implement low-latency API services, work with Node.js/TypeScript, and contribute across the stack.

This remote role overlaps US business hours, requires a strong focus on quality, security, and scalability, and offers competitive compensation, generous time off, and ongoing education.