Senior Node.js/TypeScript Backend Engineer (Remote)

Bluelight; Ciudad Juárez; Remote; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Generous PTO

Flexible hours

Remote work

Education & training

Certifications support

Job summary

Bluelight is seeking an experienced software engineer to join our rapidly growing team. You will contribute to challenging projects, building high-quality backend services with Node.js/TypeScript and AWS, while collaborating across disciplines to deliver scalable REST APIs.

The role emphasizes secure multi-tenant architectures, real-time data handling, and robust testing practices. A Bachelor's degree is required, and you should be able to overlap US business hours in a remote-friendly

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services using Node.js/TypeScript.
• Design and optimize low-latency RESTful APIs on AWS.
• Implement secure, multi-tenant data models and access controls.
• Collaborate with frontend and infra teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Write tests and ensure integration against real databases.
• Adopt CI/CD practices and automate deployments.
• Contribute to frontend work when needed and overlap US business hours.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

PostgreSQL

React

Testing

CI/CD

SQL

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

node-postgres

pg-migrate

Fastify

Zod

AWS Fargate/ECS

Job description

Bluelight is seeking an experienced software engineer to join our rapidly growing team. You will contribute to challenging projects, building high-quality backend services with Node.js/TypeScript and AWS, while collaborating across disciplines to deliver scalable REST APIs.

The role emphasizes secure multi-tenant architectures, real-time data handling, and robust testing practices. A Bachelor's degree is required, and you should be able to overlap US business hours in a remote-friendly