Senior Remote Node.js/TypeScript Backend Engineer

Bluelight; Palmira; Remote; COP 90,000,000 - 150,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Paid time off

Flexible hours

Remote work

Education & training

Certifications sponsorship

Job summary

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy expanding its team across the US and Americas. We seek a senior backend developer to build high-quality, scalable applications in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

You will design and implement low-latency RESTful services in Node.js/TypeScript, work with PostgreSQL, and contribute to frontend tasks when needed, ensuring security and multi-tenant architectures. Remote collaboration and US-hour overlap are common.

Qualifications

• >5+ years professional software development experience (backend-focused).
• Proficiency with Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Experience building low-latency API services in AWS.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and RLS, secure multi-tenant environments.
• Able to write raw SQL and manage migrations.
• Proficient in React and full-stack work when needed.
• Strong testing, including integration tests against real databases.
• Comfortable overlapping US business hours.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs.
• Build scalable RESTful APIs with Node.js/TypeScript.
• Collaborate across frontend and backend teams on distributed systems.
• Maintain secure, multi-tenant architectures and data models.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

PostgreSQL

SQL

React

CI/CD

Full stack

Backend-focused

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

AWS Fargate

ECS

node-postgres

pg-migrate

Zod

Job description

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy expanding its team across the US and Americas. We seek a senior backend developer to build high-quality, scalable applications in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

You will design and implement low-latency RESTful services in Node.js/TypeScript, work with PostgreSQL, and contribute to frontend tasks when needed, ensuring security and multi-tenant architectures. Remote collaboration and US-hour overlap are common.