Technical Lead Full Stack(MERN & Cloud)

About The Role -
Techdome is hiring a Software Architect to own the technical spine of an 80+ engineer studio building systems that handle real patient data and real money — not staging data, not demos. Youll design the architecture, write the PR that sets the pattern, run the incident retro at 2am, and sit across the table from clients trusting your judgment. This is a hands-on ownership role, not a diagramming job with an architect title bolted on.
What Youll Own -

• End-to-end architecture: service boundaries, data models, API contracts, encryption strategy, observability, and scaling plans.
• Compliance-by-design: PHI handling (audit logging, access control, tokenization, encryption in transit/at rest) and strict payment-data isolation — no exceptions, even under deadline pressure.
• The full MERN stack in production: MongoDB, Express, React, Node — plus containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and secrets management youve actually run, not just documented.
• Major trade-off calls (monolith vs. microservices, build vs. buy, sync vs. event-driven) that you can defend with evidence months later.
• Technical standards and reference architectures that outlast your own projects and get inherited by other teams.
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  A point of view on AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor are used daily here) and how it changes what architecture means.
• Client relationships — youre the one who gives the hard recommendation, not just the easy one.
  

Must Haves -

• 6+ years of production ownership at architect, principal, or staff engineer level, including 2–3 years as final technical authority on a platform.
• Current, hands-on Node.js and React experience (MERN preferred; strong Node-centric full-stack background also considered).
• Real cloud experience running production systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure — networking, security, and cost optimization included.
• Background in a regulated or high-stakes domain: HIPAA/PHI, PCI-DSS, fintech, banking, or insurance.
• Concrete, defensible trade-off decisions youve made and lived with — not hypotheticals.
  

Nice to Haves -

• Audited HIPAA experience (BAA-covered infrastructure, PHI access controls, audit trails).
• Payment systems work with Stripe, Braintree, or similar, inside a PCI-DSS environment.
• Event-driven or microservices architecture at meaningful scale.
• Consulting, multi-product, or venture-studio background.
• A track record of setting technical standards across multiple teams or products.
  

Why Techdome
Bootstrapped and profitable — no investor deck to perform for. 80+ engineers across Hyderabad, Indore, Mumbai, Dubai, and the US, and we take equity in what we build alongside our clients — which is why people here still care about a system a year after launch.