Remote Node.js/TypeScript Backend Engineer: Scale & Impact

Bluelight; Tijuana; Remote; MXN 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Generous PTO

Flexible working hours

Work remotely

Continuing education

Certifications

Job summary

Bluelight is seeking a senior backend-focused software engineer to design and develop high-quality applications. You will work on low-latency API services in AWS, leverage PostgreSQL/AuroraDB with RLS, and contribute to multi-tenant, secure systems while collaborating with a dynamic team.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript, plus React familiarity.

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend APIs and services using Node.js/TypeScript.
• Contribute to scalable, secure, multi-tenant architectures on AWS.
• Collaborate across teams and align with US business hours as needed.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

PostgreSQL/AuroraDB

React

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Testing

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Fastify

Zod

AWS Fargate/ECS

node-postgres

node-pg-migrate

Job description

Bluelight is seeking a senior backend-focused software engineer to design and develop high-quality applications. You will work on low-latency API services in AWS, leverage PostgreSQL/AuroraDB with RLS, and contribute to multi-tenant, secure systems while collaborating with a dynamic team.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript, plus React familiarity.