Senior Backend Node.js/TypeScript Engineer — Remote

Bluelight; Chihuahua; Remote; MXN 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonuses

Generous paid-time-off

Flexible working hours

Work remotely

Continuing education

Company-sponsored coursework

Job summary

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy actively expanding across the US and the Americas. We seek a senior backend-focused developer to design and deliver low-latency API services, robust data models, and secure, multi-tenant solutions.

You will work with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, collaborating across teams to build scalable applications, write tests, and maintain high standards of 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

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

SQL

Security

Testing

CI/CD

React

Problem solving

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

node-postgres

node-pg-migrate

AWS Fargate/ECS

Docker

Job description

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy actively expanding across the US and the Americas. We seek a senior backend-focused developer to design and deliver low-latency API services, robust data models, and secure, multi-tenant solutions.

You will work with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, collaborating across teams to build scalable applications, write tests, and maintain high standards of quality.