Principal / Staff Architect — MERN, Healthcare & Payments

Real patients. Real money. Real consequences - Most architects draw boxes and arrows, hand off a doc, and move on to the next diagram. That's not this job. At Techdome, you design the system and you're still in the code six months later when it's live, handling real PHI and real transactions, at 2am if something breaks. You'll set the technical bar for an 80+ engineer studio — and you'll defend that bar in design reviews, in PRs, in incident retros, and in front of the clients whose businesses run on what you build. If "architecture" to you means influence earned through judgment, not a title on a slide, keep reading. What You'll Actually Do - Own platform architecture, start to finish — system design, service boundaries, data modeling, API contracts, and the unglamorous NFRs (security, scalability, observability, cost) that determine whether it survives contact with production. Build for the stakes that matter — HIPAA-grade PHI handling, audit logging, access controls, encryption at rest and in transit, tokenization, and airtight segregation of payment data. Architect on MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) plus the cloud stack underneath it — containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management. Make the calls nobody else wants to make — build vs. buy, monolith vs. microservices, sync vs. event-driven — and back them up with evidence, not vibes. Raise the studio's bar — code review practices, reference architectures, reusable patterns that outlive any one project. Build AI-native, from day one — our engineers ship daily with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor. We want architects who have real opinions on how that changes system design, not just how it speeds up typing. Grow senior engineers into tech leads — through influence and demonstrated judgment, not org-chart authority. What You Bring - 6+ years shipping production software with end-to-end ownership of system design — architect, principal engineer, or staff engineer level. Real,