Senior AWS Node.js Architect (Remote • Flexible Hours)

bluelightconsulting; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote position

Continuing education support

Job summary

bluelightconsulting seeks a senior remote Software Architect to shape technical direction for Latin America–based consulting practice. You will define standards, mentor engineers, and defend design decisions in client reviews.

The role emphasizes low-latency AWS systems, audit/evidence architectures, and secure multi-tenant designs. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software development experience with a strong architectural track record, deep Node.js/TypeScript/JavaScript expertise, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with at least 3 years in an architecture-focused role.
• Deep expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript across the stack, plus scalable RESTful APIs and SDK integrations.
• Strong AWS architecture experience, including PostgreSQL/AuroraDB and Row-Level Security at a data-modeling level.
• Experience designing audit/evidence systems and fail-open/fail-closed/degraded-state semantics.
• Proven background architecting large, complex systems end-to-end and establishing technical standards.
• Bachelor's degree, ability to overlap US business hours, and demonstrated ownership, technical leadership, and meticulous attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Design low-latency, AWS-based service architectures with justified distributed components.
• Architect to explicit latency budgets and define fail-open/fail-closed semantics.
• Lead the design of audit and evidence systems with versioned models and deterministic history.
• Architect secure multi-tenant environments, evaluating RLS, schema-per-tenant, and per-tenant approaches.
• Establish technical standards, perform architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and produce ADRs and diagrams.
• Build capacity models and cloud cost/performance projections aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework, and defend decisions in client reviews.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

RESTful APIs

AWS architecture

PostgreSQL/AuroraDB

Row-Level Security

Architectural leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

bluelightconsulting seeks a senior remote Software Architect to shape technical direction for Latin America–based consulting practice. You will define standards, mentor engineers, and defend design decisions in client reviews.

The role emphasizes low-latency AWS systems, audit/evidence architectures, and secure multi-tenant designs. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software development experience with a strong architectural track record, deep Node.js/TypeScript/JavaScript expertise, and