Lead Software Engineer

TechDome; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Techdome is a profitable, product-driven company with 80+ engineers building healthcare, fintech, AI and SaaS products. You’ll be a technical leader who designs systems, builds them with the team, and stays accountable once they’re live.

Lead a MERN-based stack on cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), own architecture, reliability, security, and on-call responsibilities, mentoring engineers and setting engineering standards as we scale.

Qualifications

• 6.5+ years in software engineering with ownership of architecture decisions.
• Experience running a live production system with 100,000+ users.
• Proven history diagnosing and fixing 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, 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Architecture ownership

Reliability engineering

MERN stack

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Security/compliance

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Stripe

Braintree

Job description

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.