Senior Backend Engineer
This is us
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This is the job
In LATAM In the IoT & Industrial Domain, we are actively seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with strong expertise inNode.js, TypeScript, and AWS Serverless. In this role, you will design, build, and operate critical backend services focused on high-frequency IoT telemetry processing, time-series data management, robust APIs, and production operability.
This is you
Solid experience in backend development with Node.js/TypeScript and designing REST APIs and event-driven architectures.
Proven hands-on experience in AWS Serverless architecture: Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and integration services (API Gateway, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis, or Step Functions).
Strong expertise in PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL: data modeling, indexing, query performance, transactions, and troubleshooting.
Demonstrated experience handling high-frequency time-series data: ingestion, time-window queries, aggregations, and retention policies.
Strong proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows: PRs, code reviews, branching strategies, and CI/CD automation.
Deep commitment to testing best practices (unit/integration), end-to-end observability, and security (OWASP, secrets management, authn/authz).
Professional technical English level to write code, review PRs, and read documentation seamlessly.
Strong technical leadership skills: ownership mindset, ability to mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions (ADRs), and elevate code quality standards.
Nice-to-have skills:
Eperience with AWS IoT Core (MQTT), Device Shadows, Rules Engine, and Greengrass edge devices.
Experience operating TimescaleDB in production (hypertables, query optimization, cost management).
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK) and serverless utility tooling like Lambda Powertools for TypeScript.
Experience managing monorepos (Turborepo/NX with pnpm) and private npm packages using AWS CodeArtifact.
Familiarity with OpenTelemetry/X-Ray, SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets), Docker/ECS, or industrial IoT/SCADA/MES contexts.
This is your role
Design and implement serverless APIs and microservices in Node.js/TypeScript on AWS Lambda integrated with API Gateway, ALB, or event triggers.
Maintain and extend shared core packages (types, helpers, error codes) ensuring API contract integrity across frontend and mobile platforms.
Implement resilience and reliability patterns: idempotency, exponential backoff retries, DLQ, deduplication, and Lambda concurrency control.
Define and optimize event-driven IoT architectures for telemetry ingestion and manage time-series models in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and hypertables.
Set up end-to-end observability (structured logs, metrics, distributed tracing) and define actionable alerts with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry.
Enforce security best practices (least-privilege IAM, Secrets Manager, encryption) and maintain automated GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
Take ownership of critical platform components, document architecture trade-offs (ADRs), mentor engineers, and drive continuous platform improvements.
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