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

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy dedicated to designing and developing innovative technology that enhances users' lives. With a steadfast commitment to delivering exceptional service to our clients, Bluelight excels in its focus on quality and customer satisfaction. Our mission is not only to create cutting-edge applications but also to foster a collaborative and enriching work environment where each team member can grow and thrive. With a presence across the United States and Central/South America, Bluelight is in an exciting phase of expansion, continually seeking exceptional talent to join its dynamic and diverse community.
We are looking for a skilled individual to join our rapidly growing team at Bluelight. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where everyone's opinions and efforts are valued and appreciated. You will have the opportunity to contribute to challenging and meaningful projects, developing high-quality applications that stand out in the market. We value continuous learning, personal growth, and hard work, offering a collaborative environment that promotes professional development. If you are passionate about software development and eager to be part of a growing software consultancy, we invite you to apply and join us on this exciting journey.
Requirements

- 8+ years professional software development experience, with 3+ years in an architecture-focused role

- Deep experience designing low-latency service architectures in AWS, including judgment about when distributed components (queues, caches, search projections) earn their place

- Experience designing to explicit latency budgets (p95/p99), including synchronous durable commits in hot paths

- Experience designing audit/evidence systems: append-only event logs, versioned or bitemporal fact models, and deterministic historical replay

- Experience designing fail-open/fail-closed/degraded-state semantics and outage postures

- Proven experience architecting secure multi-tenant environments, including tradeoff analysis (RLS vs. schema-per-tenant vs. database-per-tenant)

- Deep experience with PostgreSQL/AuroraDB and Row-Level Security (RLS) at a data-modeling and architecture level

- Expertise in designing and building scalable RESTful APIs

- Experience architecting SDK integrations to other services

- Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript across the stack

- Experience building capacity models and cloud cost/performance projections (AWS Well-Architected Framework)

- Experience establishing technical standards, conducting architecture and code reviews, and mentoring engineering teams

- Experience producing architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical decision records (ADRs)

- Experience presenting and defending architecture decisions in client engineering and security reviews

- Experience working with AI coding assistants as part of daily development

- Substantial background architecting large, complex systems end-to-end

- Ability to overlap US business hours

- Bachelor's degree required

- Extreme ownership and accountability for deliverables

- Client-focused dedication to team commitments

- Best practices knowledge and adherence

- Strong problem-solving ability and technical leadership skills

- Positive mindset and can-do attitude

- Meticulous attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in compliance-sensitive or regulated domains (e.g., TCPA/DNC, fintech decisioning, audit-heavy systems)

- Experience with event-driven design, message queues, and caching strategies at scale

- Advanced degree

Company Benefits

- Competitive salary and bonuses, including performance-based salary increases.

- Generous paid-time-off policy

- Flexible working hours

- Work remotely

- Continuing education, training, conferences

- Company-sponsored coursework, exams, and certifications

Being a consultant in our team is a fun, challenging, and rewarding ca