Senior Backend Engineer Tech Lead (3-4 month long) - Remote - Latin America

FullStack

United States

Remote

CLP 118,227,000 - 177,340,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay
100% remote work
Work with leading startups and Fortune
Continuing education opportunities
Career growth opportunities

Job summary

FullStack is your AI-native engineering partner helping teams productionize AI and prove value at scale. You will integrate directly into our client's team, collaborating daily with designers and engineers on backend infrastructure and AI-enabled features.

We’re seeking senior engineers with leadership experience, strong Node.js/TypeScript skills, AWS, MongoDB, and a track record delivering large, complex systems.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 2+ years of technical leadership influencing architecture and engineering direction.
  • Advanced English is required.
  • Successful completion of a four-year college degree is required.
  • Expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

  • Integrate directly into our client’s team and work with designers and engineers daily.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions and backend-for-frontend patterns.
  • Design and secure scalable microservices and event-driven architectures for high-scale systems.
  • Collaborate with external vendors and internal teams to deliver on commitments.

Skills

Software engineering
Technical leadership
English proficiency
Node.js
TypeScript
Backend-for-Frontend
AWS
MongoDB
APIs & microservices
AI tools LangChain/LlamaIndex
CI/CD
Agile/Scrum
Ownership & accountability

Education

Four-year college degree

Tools

AWS
Salesforce OCAPI
CMS integrations
MongoDB tooling

Job description

About FullStack

FullStack is your AI-native engineering partner, built to turn AI capability into certainty. Most companies can demo AI; few can get it to production and prove what it produced. We close that gap with three capabilities, AI built into your products from the start, elite vetted talent who apply it, and transparent execution that shows value every step of the way. With now over 600 customers in North America, FullStack is one integrated partner for all your AI engineering needs. With FullStack, you move forward with confidence.

  • Offering life-changing career opportunities to talented software professionals across the Americas.
  • Building highly-skilled software development teams for hundreds of the world’s greatest companies.
  • Having delivered hundreds of successful custom software solutions, which have positively impacted the lives and careers of millions of users.
  • Our 4.1-star rating on GlassDoor.
  • Our client Net Promoter Score of 68, twice the industry average.
About FullStack

FullStack is your AI-native engineering partner, built to turn AI capability into certainty. Most companies can demo AI; few can get it to production and prove what it produced. We close that gap with three capabilities, AI built into your products from the start, elite vetted talent who apply it, and transparent execution that shows value every step of the way. With now over 600 customers in North America, FullStack is one integrated partner for all your AI engineering needs. With FullStack, you move forward with confidence.

  • Offering life-changing career opportunities to talented software professionals across the Americas.
  • Building highly-skilled software development teams for hundreds of the world’s greatest companies.
  • Having delivered hundreds of successful custom software solutions, which have positively impacted the lives and careers of millions of users.
  • Our 4.1-star rating on GlassDoor.
  • Our client Net Promoter Score of 68, twice the industry average.
We’re Most Proud Of
  • Offering life-changing career opportunities to talented software professionals across the Americas.
  • Building highly-skilled software development teams for hundreds of the world’s greatest companies.
  • Having delivered hundreds of successful custom software solutions, which have positively impacted the lives and careers of millions of users.
  • Our 4.1-star rating on GlassDoor.
  • Our client Net Promoter Score of 68, twice the industry average.
The Opportunity
  • You will integrate directly into our client's team and work alongside their existing designers and engineers on a daily basis.
What We're Looking For
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in technical leadership influencing architecture and engineering direction.
  • Advanced English is required.
  • Successful completion of a four-year college degree is required.
  • Expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
  • Track record of architecting Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) systems and robust API middleware specialized for mobile platforms.
  • Demonstrated experience working with AWS cloud services (specifically EC2, ECS, Lambda, ElastiCache, S3, and CloudFront).
  • Solid background in MongoDB and optimizing backend deployment pipelines.
  • Experienced with Salesforce OCAPI/API, CMS-driven content management, and mobile-specific third-party integrations.
  • Strong history of designing and securing scalable microservices and event-driven architectures for high-scale e-commerce systems.
  • Comfortable working with AI development tools, including LLM integration (LangChain or LlamaIndex) and agentic workflows.
  • Skilled at representing engineering teams in client-facing interactions and collaborating with external vendors.
  • Ability to work through new and difficult issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
  • Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of applications.
  • Forensic attention to detail.
  • A positive mindset and a can-do attitude.
  • Experience working on Agile/Scrum teams.
  • Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
  • Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon.
  • Ability to identify with the goals of FullStack's clients and dedicate yourself to delivering on the commitments you and your team make to them.
Nice To Have

We’re Seeking Engineers Who Are AI-enthusiastic In Their Workflow. Professional Experience Or Personal Project Work With The Following Is a Significant Plus

  • Cursor, Windsurf, or Google Antigravity.
  • Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, or Copilot CLI.
Work Authorization Requirements
  • Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the country of this job posting on a full-time basis.
  • FullStack will not sponsor applicants for work visas now or in the future.
What We Offer
  • Competitive pay.
  • 100% remote work.
  • The ability to work with leading startups and Fortune 500 companies.
  • Continuing education opportunities.
  • Opportunity to grow and expand your career.

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