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Costa Rica
Remote only
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.
