
Senior Backend Engineer – Integrations, Internal Tools
Truelogic Software
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Colombia
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About the role
- Design and build robust backend services that integrate internal systems and third-party APIs to support branding, content, and research workflows.
- Lead system architecture decisions for new internal tools and utilities, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Develop automation pipelines for tasks like asset delivery, PDF report generation, data synchronization, and marketing material creation.
- Own API development end-to-end, including design, documentation, monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with content, branding, and research teams to understand needs and deliver backend solutions that unlock operational efficiency.
- Ensure code quality and security, writing clean, well-tested code with clear documentation and thoughtful error handling.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, sharing knowledge and promoting best practices through code reviews and technical discussions.
- Drive observability and resilience, setting up logging, monitoring, and alerting for the services you own.
- Stay ahead of backend trends, continuously evaluating and introducing tools or patterns that improve development velocity and system performance.
Requirements
- Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, and solid working knowledge of Python
- Proven ability to design and build RESTful APIs and work with third-party API integrations
- Hands-on experience with Node.js frameworks such as Fastify, Hono, or Express
- Solid background working with PostgreSQL, including schema design and performance tuning
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, and debugging production services
- Strong skills in system design and backend architecture
- Experience building automation workflows (e.g., with tools like n8n or similar)
- Excellent English communication skills and a collaborative mindset
- Comfortable working in a remote, async-first environment with at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern Time
- We’ll prioritize candidates with strong AWS experience. If you’ve mostly worked with Azure, that’s still welcome — we’re happy to support ramp-up time.
- If you’re applying to a variant of the role that involves some frontend work: experience with React or Vue is great, and we’re open to candidates willing to learn Svelte on the job.
- We’re targeting backend-leaning full-stack engineers, candidates should have enough frontend experience to confidently build UI-facing features and support backend-driven automation that integrates with the frontend, including AI-assisted workflows.
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonRESTful APIsNode.jsPostgreSQLCI/CDsystem designbackend architectureautomation workflows
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingcode reviews