Lead Software Engineer

About the Role

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 are 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 Will 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 duties.
• Build security in from day one: Design safe PHI (Protected Health Information) 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: Decide between monolith vs. microservices, event-driven patterns, third-party integrations, build vs. buy. Document your reasoning and stand behind it.
• Fix what's broken: Jump into production incidents to find root causes and resolve performance, scaling, and availability issues.
• Set the standard: Create reference architectures, reusable patterns, and practical guidelines for engineering teams.
• Stay hands-on: Write code daily, run design reviews, and review pull requests weekly.
• Grow next leaders: Mentor engineers to develop future tech leads.

What You Bring

• 6.5+ years in software engineering with a record of owning architecture decisions.
• Experience running live production systems for 100,000+ users.
• Proven history diagnosing and fixing serious scale and performance bottlenecks.
• Strong hands-on skills in Node.js and React (MERN stack preferred).
• Solid architecture experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Background in healthcare, fintech, payments, insurance, or another high-security domain is essential.
• 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 protocols.
• Experience building high-availability, event-driven, or microservices systems.
• Background in SaaS, consulting, or a venture studio environment.
• 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 immediately.
• Real influence:You shape engineering standards for a large, growing team in Hyderabad with global impact.
• Stability without bureaucracy:A profitable company offering agility and minimal red tape.
• Global reach:Products used by customers around the world solving critical problems.