Senior Solution Architect

Frontdoor, Inc.; Remote; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking an Architect to drive modernization initiatives and ensure system stability in a dynamic environment. This role requires expertise in Domain Driven Design, clear integration patterns, and the ability to translate complex workflows into actionable designs. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience in software engineering and architecture. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package and a competitive salary range of $145k to $195k, depending on qualifications and experience.

Benefits

Insurance for medical/pharmacy

Dental and vision insurance

401(k) matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in architecture or software engineering.
• Experienced in applying Domain Driven Design in delivery contexts.
• Ability to build high-quality POCs and reference implementations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product and business leaders to translate workflows into action.
• Define clear service boundaries and integration seams.
• Guide architectural decisions reducing coupling and improving modularity.

Skills

Domain Driven Design

Collaborative modeling techniques

Integration and contract design skills

Cognitive flexibility

Clear communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science

Job description

Overview

Frontdoor is reimagining how homeowners maintain and repair their most valuable asset – their home. As the parent company of two leading brands, we bring over 50 years of experience in providing our members with comprehensive options to protect their homes from costly and unexpected breakdowns through our extensive network of pre-qualified professional contractors. American Home Shield, the category leader in home service plans with approximately two million members, gives homeowners budget protection and convenience, covering up to 23 essential home systems and appliances. Frontdoor is a cutting edge, one-stop app for home repair and maintenance. Enabled by our Streem technology, the app empowers homeowners by connecting them in real time through video chat with pre-qualified experts to diagnose and solve their problems. The Frontdoor app also offers homeowners a range of other benefits including DIY tips, discounts and more. For more information about American Home Shield and Frontdoor, please visit frontdoorhome.com.

Responsibilities

Summary: Embedded, accountable architect enabling cross-functional delivery teams, guiding Frontdoor’s alignment and modernization initiative and ongoing product enhancements from business intent to shipped outcomes. Partners with product and business leaders to uncover how work actually happens, then translates workflows, policies, and constraints into domain language, clear boundaries, and stable contracts. Leads solution design for modernization slices and feature initiatives that improve modularity while protecting production stability. Defines and stewards API and event contracts, versioning expectations, and integration patterns to reduce cross-team thrash and downstream surprises. Builds POCs, demos, and reference implementations to validate approaches and enable teams with practical, reusable patterns. Participates in broader architecture strategy as a contributor, bringing field-tested guidance and learnings into shared standards and guardrails.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with product and business leaders to uncover workflows, policies, and constraints, translating them into domain language and actionable design decisions.
• Lead collaborative domain modeling using bounded contexts, context mapping, ubiquitous language, and event storming to define domain responsibilities and ownership.
• Define clear service boundaries aligned to the enterprise context map and clarify integration seams between domains.
• Produce solution designs for modernization slices and product enhancements, balancing domain integrity with delivery constraints and operational risk.
• Plan and execute incremental modernization slices using pragmatic patterns such as strangler, parallel run, phased cutover, and contract-first migration.
• Define data and integration migration approaches that preserve business continuity and support safe rollback.
• Define and steward API and event contracts for domain seams, including versioning rules and backward compatibility practices.
• Guide integration and interface design across synchronous APIs and asynchronous messaging based on workflow, reliability, and scalability needs.
• Provide hands‑on architectural guidance that reduces coupling, improves modularity, and enables decomposition within team scope.
• Build POCs, demos, and reference implementations to validate approaches and deliver reusable patterns and starter templates.
• Review key designs and critical implementation decisions for maintainability, testability, performance, and operability.
• Ensure non‑functional requirements are explicit and designed in, including availability, resilience, security, observability, and performance.
• Promote safe delivery practices including incremental rollout, feature flags where appropriate, safe migrations, and testing strategies aligned to risk.
• Participate in incident learning and translate recurring issues into improved patterns, guardrails, and playbooks.
• Participate in architecture reviews and strategy working sessions as an input provider, raising risks, conflicts, and options grounded in delivery reality.
• May include other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience applying Domain Driven Design in delivery contexts
• Hands‑on experience with bounded contexts, context mapping, ubiquitous language, and collaborative modeling techniques such as event storming
• Proven experience modernizing legacy systems incrementally while maintaining production stability
• Strong integration and contract design skills across APIs and asynchronous messaging
• Experience with contract versioning, backward compatibility practices, and integration change management
• Deep prior coding experience with strong object‑oriented design practice
• Ability to build high‑quality POCs, demos, and reference implementations that teams can adopt
• Strong judgment in tradeoffs between domain purity, delivery constraints, and operational risk
• Strong facilitation skills with product and business partners to extract real workflows and constraints
• Clear communication skills with technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Ability to influence without authority through credibility, clarity, and delivery impact

Preferred Skills:

• Experience decomposing existing implementations into domain‑aligned modules and services using strangler and phased cutover approaches
• Experience designing event‑driven systems and choosing between synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns appropriately
• Experience with platform capabilities such as API gateways, catalogs, developer portals, and governance workflows
• Experience with observability practices and operational readiness expectations in cloud environments
• Experience mentoring engineers and architects in practical DDD and modernization techniques
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks as context, not as the primary method of delivery

Minimum Education, Licensure and Professional Certification requirements: Bachelor's degree required in engineering, computer science or equivalent

Minimum Experience required (number of years necessary to perform role): 10+ years of hands‑on experience required in architecture, software engineering, system engineering, project management and/or business analysis or any equivalent

Travel: Not specified

Other/State Specific

This role pays between 145k to 195k, and your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, responsibilities, experience, and location.

At Frontdoor certain roles are eligible for additional rewards and incentives. Speak directly to your recruiter to learn more.

Our approach to benefits is holistic, and includes health, wellbeing and financial components including: insurance for medical/pharmacy, dental, vision, life, and disability, weight loss and smoking cessation programs, matching 401(k) and ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan.

Job Locations

US

Company

AHS American Home Shield Corp

Type

Full Time

Category

Computer Programmers