Senior MERN Tech Lead for Cloud-Native Apps

Foundation Software; Strongsville (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Award‑winning culture

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Foundation Software is seeking a Senior Application Developer to own and evolve cloud-native MERN solutions on Google Cloud Platform. You will lead design, drive architecture decisions, and mentor teammates while delivering scalable web applications and microservices.

You will collaborate across Product, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and business teams to shape technical direction, improve reliability, and enable observability with Sentry and OpenTelemetry.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Proven experience leading software projects and influencing technical direction.
• Strong, current expertise with TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support scalable applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js (TypeScript), APIs, and GCP.
• Develop modern web applications, microservices, integrations, and cloud-native solutions deployed via containers to Google Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Kubernetes.
• Lead solution design and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Drive modernization initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Lead technical projects from design through deployment.
• Coordinate work across developers, product teams, and stakeholders.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, planning sessions, and technical decision‑making.
• Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges.
• Mentor developers through code reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Promote engineering best practices including clean architecture, dependency injection, testing, performance, and code quality.
• Partner closely with Product, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and business teams.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues using the observability stack (Sentry, OpenTelemetry, structured logging) and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

TypeScript

MongoDB

Express.js

React

Node.js

GCP

Leadership

Mentorship

Communication

Tools

InversifyJS

BullMQ

Redis

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

JWT Auth

Zod

Redux Toolkit

React Hook Form

Material UI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Foundation Software is seeking a Senior Application Developer to own and evolve cloud-native MERN solutions on Google Cloud Platform. You will lead design, drive architecture decisions, and mentor teammates while delivering scalable web applications and microservices.

You will collaborate across Product, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and business teams to shape technical direction, improve reliability, and enable observability with Sentry and OpenTelemetry.