Software Architect (AWS, NodeJS) - Remote, Latin America

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

Role overview

This is a senior, remote Software Architect role for a Latin America–based consulting practice, shaping the technical direction of large, low-latency, multi-tenant systems on AWS. The position is ideal for an architect who enjoys defining standards, mentoring engineers, and defending design decisions in front of client engineering and security stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design low-latency, AWS-based service architectures, including when distributed components like queues, caches, and search projections are justified.
• Architect to explicit p95/p99 latency budgets, including synchronous durable commits on hot paths, and define fail-open, fail-closed, and degraded-state semantics.
• Lead the design of audit and evidence systems using append-only event logs, versioned or bitemporal fact models, and deterministic historical replay.
• Architect secure multi-tenant environments, evaluating tradeoffs between Row-Level Security, schema-per-tenant, and database-per-tenant approaches.
• Establish technical standards, conduct architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, and produce ADRs, diagrams, and architecture documentation.
• Build capacity models and cloud cost/performance projections aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and present/defend decisions in client reviews.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience in compliance-sensitive or regulated domains such as TCPA/DNC, fintech decisioning, or audit-heavy systems.
• Background with event-driven design, message queues, and large-scale caching strategies.
• Advanced degree.

Benefits and work setup

• Competitive salary with performance-based increases and bonuses.
• Generous paid time off and flexible working hours.
• Fully remote position.
• Continuing education support, including training, conferences, and sponsored coursework, exams, and certifications.