- 6-8+ years building production software, including a real architecture or principal-engineer chapter where you owned system design end to end.
- Deep MERN expertise — you can architect and go hands-on in Node.js and React without a handoff.
- Strong cloud architecture skills on at least one major provider (AWS / GCP / Azure) — networking, security, scaling, and cost.
- Demonstrated experience designing systems in a regulated or high-stakes domain: healthcare (HIPAA/PHI), payments (PCI-DSS), fintech, or similar.
- The judgment to make irreversible decisions and the communication to bring a team along with you.
- Accountability for the outcome of your architecture in production — not just the diagram.
Nice to have:
- HIPAA / healthcare compliance in production — audit trails, BAA-covered infrastructure, PHI access controls.
- Payment systems experience — Stripe, Braintree, PCI-DSS environments, tokenization, reconciliation.
- Event-driven architecture, microservices, and high-availability system design.
- Experience in a multi-product, consulting, or venture-studio workplace where context-switching is the norm.
- An AI-native development practice and opinions on how AI changes architecture and delivery.
Skills:- Architecture, MERN Stack, AI Coding Tools, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Systems design, NodeJS (Node.js) and Distributed Systems