Lead (NodeJS/Typescript/React) Engineer - AA, Remote: Colombia - Costa Rica, Fulltime.

Gorilla Logic is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer with a strong backend focus to join a product-oriented engineering team building and evolving a modern, cloud-based enterprise platform. This hands-on Technical Leadership role involves driving backend architecture, enforcing high engineering standards, and influencing long-term platform evolution.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of backend services using Node.js (Express preferred) and TypeScript
• Own complex features end-to-end within a long-lived product environment
• Define and promote clean architecture principles, modular boundaries, and maintainable naming conventions
• Drive API design standards including versioning, backward compatibility, and integration reliability
• Guide relational data modeling decisions (Postgres/MySQL/Oracle) with performance awareness
• Contribute to the React application to deliver full end-to-end features
• Lead architectural discussions and clearly articulate technical trade-offs
• Promote resilient unit testing and disciplined TypeScript practices
• Partner with Product Managers to define scope, negotiate trade-offs, and set realistic delivery commitments
• Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering standards
• Contribute to a remote-first, collaborative engineering culture

Requirements:

• 7+ years building production-quality software (6+ acceptable with strong leadership signals)
• Experience in long-term product environments (not only short-term project work)
• Strong Node.js backend expertise (Express preferred)
• Excellent API design and modular architecture skills
• Strong relational database experience (Postgres, MySQL, or Oracle)
• Experience integrating third-party systems (REST/JSON; comfortable with XML)
• Strong TypeScript proficiency with strict typing discipline
• Solid unit testing habits and experience with test-first approaches
• Solid React experience and ability to deliver full-stack features
• Strong system design skills and ability to articulate trade-offs clearly
• Excellent communication skills in remote collaboration environments
• Experience with Temporal or similar workflow/orchestration engines
• Experience with Kafka or event-driven architecture patterns
• Hands-on AWS experience in production environments
• Familiarity with observability (logs, metrics, traces) and incident response mindset
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with MUI, React Hook Form, Redux Toolkit Query, Suspense, Storybook
• Experience with dynamic forms or large modular React applications
• Familiarity with Jest or Vitest and UI testing practices