Senior Backend Engineer

Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location:  Colombia, Brazil, Mexico. Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru: United States

Work Type: Remote, Full Time

Department: Software Engineering

Job Description:

About Virtasant

Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries. We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.

About the role

Using a combination of IoT tracking devices and bleeding-edge software solutions, our client transforms with ease outdated processes into lean digital workflows, allowing their customers to interact digitally with their physical equipment, while at the same time they collect data, derive insights, and improve the efficiency of their operations.

For our client, we're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer with at least 10 years of experience in software development. You will play a critical role in building the technical foundation and implementing cutting-edge software technologies that transform existing processes into digital workflows. You will be responsible for designing and building cloud-based applications to improve businesses’ ability to schedule, maintain, and deploy complex equipment configurations. As the team’s technical lead, you will help distill technical ideas into an action engineering roadmap. You will act as a mentor and coach for your team. You must have deep experience with microservice architectures, building highly performant and well-tested code. Your expertise will help our client create an intuitive application where customers can digitally interact with their physical equipment while collecting data, deriving insights, and improving the efficiency of operations.

What You’ll Do

• Develop high-quality software

• Be responsible for building out the backend technical foundation for our client

• Provide technical advice and decision-making around architecture

• Research and implement new technologies

• Build go-to-market plans for service architecture

• Assume cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product, and design teams

• Develop testing and performance plans for the backend team

• Assist the team in Scrum activities

• Lead the development of the backend team processes

What We’re Looking For

• At least 10 years of experience in software development

• Expertise in developing microservices with NodeJS

• In-depth experience working with Typescript (ideally) or JavaScript (can also work)

• Experience working with AWS tools and technologies (Lambda, API Gateway, Cloudwatch, etc.)

• Ability to solve problems and work independently

• Experience working with 3rd party libraries

• Expert experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Specifically CircleCI)

• In-depth knowledge of Relational Databases (MySQL or Postgres)

• In-depth knowledge of NoSQL Databases (DynamoDB or other applicable)

• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools

• Expert knowledge of Terraform and experience with Terragrunt

• Experience working in Agile Scrum teams

• BS in Computer Science or related work experience

Our recruitment process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)

• Technical Interview (30 min)

• Client - Two Technical Interviews (one with the VP of Engineering and one with one of our client's leads): 1hr each

• Client - Two Collaboration interviews (with design and product): 45 mins each

We strive to move efficiently from step to step to make the recruitment process as fast as possible.

What we offer

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)

• Work hours - 8 hours, between Pacific and East Coast office hours (up to you, within this time frame)

• Long-term, no-end-date Independent contractor agreement

• Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choic