About the role
Job Title: Senior Node.js Developer
Key Skills: Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Algorithms, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code
Experience: 4–5 years
Location: Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia
Work Mode: Remote
At Coforge, we are hiring a Senior Node.js Developer (#14816-4-11) with the following skill set.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain complex modules for cloud-based streaming services.
- Own software components and initiatives end to end, ensuring high engineering quality and operational standards.
- Deploy and operate services across multiple AWS regions, primarily using ECS and EC2, alongside S3, DynamoDB, SQS, ElastiCache/Redis, Lambda, and CloudFront.
- Improve system performance and resiliency through caching and eviction strategies, retry mechanisms, dead-letter recovery, and scaling policies.
- Optimize memory and data access through memory-mapped or pager-based approaches.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions.
- Contribute to system design, architecture discussions, technical planning, and roadmap initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to automate and simplify engineering workflows, including the use of AI-assisted development tools.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4–5 years of hands-on software development experience building and operating production services.
- Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js, or solid backend development experience in another language with the ability to quickly adapt to Node.js.
- Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, particularly ECS and EC2.
- Knowledge of DevOps fundamentals, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and multi-environment deployments.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, mathematics, and performance optimization.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented and/or functional programming, concurrency, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with high-traffic distributed systems, REST or WebSocket APIs, and data formats such as JSON or Protobuf.
- Familiarity with observability practices, including logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies.
- Openness to using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.
Preferred Skills
- Strong JavaScript programming experience.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Harness.
- Knowledge of memory-mapped files, embedded key-value stores such as RocksDB, caching and eviction algorithms, or pager/streaming reader design.
- Experience with 3D model data, geometry or mesh processing, point clouds, level of detail, compression, or streaming pipelines.
- Experience with CDNs, global data distribution, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
- Understanding of network protocols such as HTTP/2, QUIC, and WebSockets.
- Experience with Rust.
Posted On: 06-11-2026
Coforge is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.