Lead Software Engineer

About the Role

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

• 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

• 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.