Remote Node.js/TypeScript Engineer - Senior Consultant

Bluelightconsulting; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonuses

Generous PTO

Remote work

Flexible hours

Continuing education

Certifications

Job summary

Bluelight is seeking a senior backend software engineer to join our remote team. You will design and build scalable, low-latency API services in AWS, leveraging Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL/AuroraDB.

The role emphasizes strong testing, security for multi-tenant environments, and collaboration with frontend teams. You will work with modern tooling and contribute to complex systems while overlapping US business hours.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software development experience (backend-focused)
• Experience building low-latency API services in AWS
• Experience with PostgreSQL/AuroraDB and RLS
• Strong testing practices incl. integration tests against real DBs
• Experience with multi-tenant systems and event-sourced data models

Skills

Problem solving

Ownership

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS (Fargate/ECS)

PostgreSQL/AuroraDB

SQL

React

Fastify

Zod

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Bluelight is seeking a senior backend software engineer to join our remote team. You will design and build scalable, low-latency API services in AWS, leveraging Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL/AuroraDB.

The role emphasizes strong testing, security for multi-tenant environments, and collaboration with frontend teams. You will work with modern tooling and contribute to complex systems while overlapping US business hours.