Location: LATAM / remote

Contract Lenght: 1 year, potential extension

Rate: 27-32 USD per hour

NTT DATA is a team of more than 190,000 diverse professionals, operating in more than 50 countries throughout the world. The sectors where we have activities include: telecommunications, finance, industry, utilities, energy, public administration and health.

Our mission? Offer technological solutions, business, strategy, development and maintenance of applications, while being a benchmark in consulting. All thanks to the collaboration between teams, the human quality of our people and the fact that we do not conform to what is established, we always seek innovation that brings us closer to the future.

Our essence has led us to the forefront of technology, breaking paradigms and providing solutions that truly respond to the needs of each client. Our talent has led us to be one of the top 6 technology companies in the world.

Because #Greattech, needs #GreatPeople, like you

NTT DATA is looking for high-achieving team players that are quickly adaptable to new challenges and entrepreneurial ventures. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer specialized in TypeScript and AWS Lambda who is passionate about building scalable, secure, and high-performance serverless applications. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role: most of the work is designing, writing, testing, deploying, and operating production code, working 100% onsite in LATAM with our global client working EST hours.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs using TypeScript and Node.js.
Build production-ready serverless applications using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
Develop event-driven workflows using Amazon EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and AWS Step Functions.
Apply appropriate retry, idempotency, error-handling, and asynchronous messaging patterns.
Implement integrations between customer-facing channels, internal platforms, and third-party systems through REST APIs, webhooks, and asynchronous messaging.
Participate in technical design discussions and translate architectural designs into scalable, production-ready code.Write unit, integration, and contract tests using Jest, Vitest, or similar testing frameworks.
Participate in code reviews and uphold clean-code, strict-typing, and maintainability standards.
Define infrastructure alongside application code using AWS CDK or equivalent Infrastructure as Code tools.
Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines.
Apply secure coding and AWS security practices, including least-privilege IAM roles, input validation, secrets management, and OAuth 2.0/OIDC authentication.
Implement structured logging, monitoring, metrics, and distributed tracing.
Troubleshoot production incidents and optimize AWS Lambda performance and cost.
Collaborate with Product Owners, QA Engineers, DevOps Engineers, architects, and business stakeholders.
Mentor developers and contribute to technical knowledge sharing.
Own features throughout the full lifecycle, from development and deployment through production support

Required Qualifications:

6+ years of professional software development experience.
At least 3 years of experience building production services on AWS.
Proven hands-on experience delivering serverless applications in production.
Experience supporting production environments and troubleshooting distributed, event-driven systems.
Experience working within cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams.

Tools & Technologies:

TypeScript and Node.js

Advanced TypeScript skills, including:

- Strict typing
- Generics
- Type-safe API contracts

Strong Node.js experience, including:

- Asynchronous programming
- Performance optimization
- Packaging applications for AWS Lambda

Experience using the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3.
Familiarity with Powertools for AWS Lambda using TypeScript, or a similar framework.

AWS and Serverless Development

Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, including:

- Handler design
- Cold starts
- Concurrency
- Lamba layers
- Bundling with esbuild

Experience with Amazon API Gateway, including REST and HTTP APIs, authorizers, and throttling.
Experience with Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and AWS Step Functions.
Strong understanding of serverless and event-driven architecture patterns.

APIs and Microservices

Experience designing RESTful APIs.
Experience creating and working with OpenAPI specifications.
Strong understanding of microservices architecture.
Experience with webhooks and synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.

Databases

Experience with Amazon DynamoDB, including single-table and access-pattern-driven design.
Experience with relational databases such as:

PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora
Microsoft SQL Server

Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD

Experience with at least one of the following Infrastructure as Code tools:

AWS CDK using TypeScript, preferred
AWS SAM
AWS CloudFormation
Terraform

Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as:

GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Jenkins
AWS CodePipeline

Experience with Git-based development workflows.

Testing and Quality

Experience using Jest or Vitest for unit and integration testing.
Experience mocking AWS services and using local testing approaches.
Experience writing unit, integration, and contract tests.
Understanding of clean-code, code-review, typing, and maintainability standards.

Security

Experience creating IAM roles and least-privilege policies.
Experience with Amazon Cognito or an equivalent identity solution.
Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and JWT.
Experience with AWS Secrets Manager or AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
Understanding of secure coding practices and input validation.

Monitoring and Observability

Experience with Amazon CloudWatch, including logs, metrics, and alarms.
Experience with AWS X-Ray.
Experience with at least one of the following:

Grafana
Prometheus
Kibana

Why NTT DATA?

Empowerment and rewards are the cornerstone of our career development model. We are a young, fast-growing company, with a highly innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, because of this professional experience and growth will be unmatched. Our talent and positive attitude allows us to transform our goals into achievements, and projects into realities.

NTT DATA is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. NTT DATA is an Equal Opportunity Employer Male/Female/Disabled/Veteran and a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Req ID: 1348