Lead Software Engineer

About the Role Great architecture is proven in production, not on a whiteboard. We’re hiring a Lead Software Engineer who designs systems, builds them alongside the team, and stays accountable once they’re live. Techdome is a profitable, product-driven company with 80+ engineers building healthcare, fintech, AI, and SaaS products. Our platforms handle sensitive patient records and real financial transactions for large user bases. You’ll be a technical leader who helps keep them fast, secure, and dependable as we scale. What You’ll Do Own the architecture: Lead system design, API contracts, data modeling, security, scalability, observability, and cloud cost across our products. Be accountable for reliability: Own uptime, latency, and throughput as usage grows, including a share of on-call. Build security in from day one: Design safe PHI and payment flows with compliance part of the architecture, not a retrofit. Drive cloud-native delivery: Run MERN-based platforms on AWS, GCP, or Azure using Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and sound secrets management. Make the hard calls: Monolith vs. microservices, event-driven patterns, third-party integrations, build vs. buy. Make the decision, document the reasoning, and stand behind it. Fix what’s broken: Jump into production incidents, find root causes, and resolve performance, scaling, and availability issues. Set the standard: Create reference architectures, reusable patterns, and practical guidelines that our engineering teams can follow. Stay hands-on: Write code, run design reviews, and review pull requests every week. Grow the next leaders: Mentor engineers and help develop future tech leads. What You Bring Must have 6.5+ years in software engineering, with a record of owning architecture decisions Experience running a live production system with 100,000+ users Proven history of diagnosing and fixing serious scale and performance bottlenecks Strong hands-on skills in Node.js and React (MERN preferred) Solid architecture experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure Background in healthcare, fintech, payments, insurance, or another high-security domain Deep understanding of distributed systems, API design, databases, and reliability engineering Ability to explain and defend technical decisions to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike Nice to have Hands-on experience with HIPAA, PHI handling, or PCI-DSS compliance Working knowledge of Stripe, Braintree, or tokenization Experience with high-availability, event-driven, or microservices systems Background in SaaS, consulting, or a venture studio Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot Why Techdome? Fast path to production: Your designs ship quickly and reach real users. Real influence: You shape engineering standards for a large, growing team. Stability without bureaucracy: A profitable company with minimal red tape. Global reach: Products used by customers around the world.