Software Architect

We don’t need an architect who draws boxes and walks away. We need one who ships the design and carries the pager.

Techdome is a profitable, product-driven engineering company with 80+ engineers building healthcare, fintech, AI, and SaaS products. Our systems store sensitive patient data and move real money for large user bases. We’re looking for a senior technical leader who thinks of production as the true test of any design and takes responsibility for the result.

What you’ll do

• Own the architecture: Lead system design, API contracts, data modeling, security, scalability, observability, and cloud spend across our products.
• Keep systems reliable: Be accountable for uptime, latency, and throughput as our user base grows.
• Design for security from day one: Build safe handling of PHI and payment flows, with compliance built into the architecture rather than added later.
• Drive cloud-native delivery: Run MERN-based platforms on AWS, GCP, or Azure with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and proper secrets management.
• Make the hard calls: Decide between monolith and microservices, choose event-driven patterns, evaluate third-party integrations, and weigh build against buy.
• Fix what’s broken: Step into production incidents, trace root causes, and resolve performance, scaling, and availability problems.
• Set the standards: Create reference architectures, reusable patterns, and practical guidelines that 80+ engineers can follow.
• Stay hands-on: Write code, lead design reviews, and review pull requests regularly.
• Grow leaders: Mentor senior engineers and help build the next group of tech leads.

What you bring

• 8+ years in software engineering, with a track record of owning architecture decisions
• Experience running a live production system with 100,000+ users (required)
• A history of diagnosing and resolving serious scale and performance bottlenecks
• Strong hands-on skills in Node.js and React (MERN preferred)
• Solid architecture experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, payments, insurance, or another high-security domain
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, API design, databases, and reliability engineering
• The ability to explain and defend your technical choices to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike

Nice to have

• Direct experience with HIPAA, PHI handling, or PCI-DSS compliance
• Working knowledge of Stripe, Braintree, or tokenization
• Experience with high-availability, event-driven, or microservices architectures
• Background in SaaS, consulting, or a venture studio
• Daily use of AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot

Why Techdome?

• Your designs reach production quickly and affect real users
• You set engineering standards for a large, growing team
• A profitable, stable company with little red tape
• Products used by customers around the world