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Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

Sr Backend Engineer (Node.js/AWS) SI-16

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer with deep expertise in Node.js, AWS cloud services, and distributed systems. This role will focus on designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-native applications while leveraging modern AWS infrastructure, containerized environments, and AI-powered solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience developing backend services, designing distributed architectures, implementing cloud-native patterns, and supporting mission-critical production systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Architect and build secure, cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Develop and maintain REST APIs and service contracts across distributed environments.
• Design resilient distributed systems that support scalability, fault tolerance, and observability.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and support containerized and serverless workloads.
• Leverage AWS Bedrock and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions within modern application architectures.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability, security, and performance.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability best practices.
• Apply cloud security standards and infrastructure automation practices.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer working with distributed, high-performance systems.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript development experience.
• Hands-on Node.js backend development experience.
• Strong AWS experience, including ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, CloudFront, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Load Balancers, SQS, and SNS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly:
• AWS CodeBuild
• CircleCI
• Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock and RAG-based solutions.
• Experience building scalable, secure, cloud-native applications.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as:
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• CDK
• Experience designing cloud-native distributed architectures with:
• Scalability
• Resiliency
• Observability
• Fault tolerance
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts including:
• Retries
• Idempotency
• Circuit breakers
• Eventual consistency
• Backpressure
• Asynchronous processing
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable REST APIs and service contracts.
• Experience with observability and monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana.
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, including:
• IAM least privilege
• Secrets management
• Encryption
• Network isolation
• Secure service-to-service communication
• Security groups

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Developer Certification and/or AWS Solutions Architect Certification.
• Experience with additional AWS services and tooling.
• Experience operating Kubernetes workloads in production environments, including:
• Scaling
• Deployments
• Networking
• Troubleshooting
• Experience automating workflows or data pipelines using AI orchestration.
• Experience optimizing high-throughput APIs and low-latency services.
• Experience with AI orchestration frameworks or agentic workflows.
• Experience with GraphQL or gRPC APIs.
• Experience working with both containerized and serverless architectures.
• Experience supporting high-availability production systems.

Required Skills

Cloud Performance API Data AI Support REST Development Grafana Pipelines ElasticSearch GraphQL REST APIs Load Scalability CI/CD Reliability Infrastructure AWS Automation Networking Kubernetes Node.js TypeScript Security Troubleshooting Design Engineering JavaScript Communication Management

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