Domain Architect

WorkNovas LLC; Oregon; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

WorkNovas LLC is seeking a Domain Architect for a fully remote role. You will own the domain architecture, define the technical roadmap, and oversee critical payment workflows across domains.

Strong emphasis on domain-driven design, immutable patterns, and durable workflows using Temporal and Kafka. The position requires hands-on coding in C#/.NET 8, extensive experience with payment ecosystems, and leading cross-team design decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years engineering experience with a focus on payments systems.
• Expert level C#/ .NET 8; must be hands-on in production.
• Experience with Azure PaaS and cloud deployments.
• Kafka in production experience required.
• Strong domain-driven design and ADRs.

Responsibilities

• Own domain architecture, technical roadmap, and key decisions.
• Define domain boundaries, model, and shared vocabulary.
• Decide service ownership for business operations; write ADRs.

Skills

C# / .NET 8

Payment systems

Azure PaaS

Kafka in production

Temporal

Domain-driven design

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Tools

Temporal

Kafka

OpenTelemetry

Azure PaaS

Job description

Domain Architect

Remote

Must Haves - -

• 10+ years of experience building payment systems
• Expert level C#/ .Net 8 - must be currently hands on
• Azure PaaS experience
• Kafka experience (in production)

Domain Ownership

• Own the domain's architecture, technical roadmap, and key decisions
• Define domain boundaries, domain model, and shared vocabulary
• Decide which service or workflow owns each business operation
• Write ARB-ready specs and ADRs

Architecture & Design

• Design idempotent, exactly-once operations (sagas, compensation, outbox/inbox, reconciliation)
• Define API and event contracts with peer domains (OpenAPI, JSON Schema, Protobuf)
• Establish trust boundaries: who computes data, who validates it, and what consumers can rely on

Workflows & Messaging

• Build durable workflows on Temporal, including Nexus cross-domain calls
• Set versioning standards for long-running workflows (patching, build IDs, replay testing)
• Design Kafka domain events with schema governance, retries, and dead-letter queues

Payments

• Architect payment workflows across the order lifecycle: create, edit, cancel, finalize, refund
• Design multi-tender orchestration across credit/debit, EBT SNAP, and EBT WIC
• Architect processor and benefit-provider integrations: auth, capture, void, refund, reversal
• Handle gateway timeouts and unknown outcomes without double-charging or leaving ghost charges
• Ensure EBT SNAP and WIC compliance with USDA FNS and state program rules
• Lead PCI DSS scope reduction, tokenization (network tokens, DPAN), encryption, and key rotation
• Extend the domain to new tenders such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and split tender
• Support 3P marketplace payments: multi-capture, over-capture rules, and split settlement
• Partner with Finance on reconciliation, TLOG reporting, and general-ledger accuracy
• Define payment SLOs: auth rate, capture success, refund success, and compensation failures

Reliability & Quality

• Build resilience with Polly and Temporal retry policies
• Keep payment authorization well within checkout timeout budgets across Azure and GCP
• Instrument tracing across HTTP, Kafka, and Temporal with OpenTelemetry
• Set the testing strategy: unit, contract, replay, gateway simulation, and load

Leadership

• Review production code and mentor senior engineers
• Lead feature-flagged migrations off legacy paths
• Use AI coding agents and context engineering to speed up delivery

Must-Have

• 10+ years engineering, 5+ years building payment systems
• Domain-driven design: bounded contexts, domain events, context mapping
• Expert C# / .NET 8+ and still codes
• Temporal (preferred) or similar durable workflow engine in production
• Kafka in production
• Azure PaaS: App Service, Cosmos DB, APIM, Key Vault --> Similar technology on Google Cloud Platform
• Containerization, running code in Kubernetes
• Idempotency, saga, and reconciliation patterns in production
• PCI DSS and tokenization
• OpenTelemetry or APM observability design
• Track record of aligning multiple teams on a shared architecture

Nice-to-Have

• Temporal Nexus or Worker Versioning
• EBT SNAP / WIC processing
• Digital wallets: Apple Pay, Google Pay
• Gateway APIs: Aurus, Adyen, Fiserv, Worldpay, Chase
• Network tokens, DPAN, multi-capture, marketplace split settlement
• Multi-cloud: Azure + Google Cloud Platform
• LaunchDarkly-driven migrations
• .NET Aspire, Testcontainers, Mockoon/WireMock
• Retail finance feeds (TLOG, sales audit, GL)
• Grocery/omnichannel retail
• Google Cloud Platform experience