Domain Architect

Later is the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing’s most visible investments. Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data—including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch. By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don’t just look good—they deliver results. Learn more at later.com . About this position: We’re looking for a deeply technical, strategically minded Domain Architect to lead the next evolution of our platform architecture. In this role, you’ll rapidly assess our existing systems, define convergence opportunities between key domains, and shape the integration strategy that drives scalability, velocity, and long-term technical excellence. You’ll bridge product, engineering, and data to define clear domain boundaries, establish technical standards, and guide the modernization of our architecture—ensuring we balance innovation with business impact. This role is ideal for an experienced architect who thrives in fast-moving environments, understands the trade-offs between pragmatism and purity, and can translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable decisions across teams. What you'll be doing: Strategy Evaluate and define the target-state domain architecture across multiple products, identifying convergence opportunities and technical debt reduction paths. Design and lead a scalable integration strategy between heterogeneous systems (e.g., Rails Node/React Native via APIs, Kafka, or event streams). Define domain boundaries and service ownership models that enable sustainable growth and platform flexibility. Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align architectural priorities with product roadmaps and business outcomes. Lead cross-functional discussions on modernization strategy, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability. Technical/ Execution Decompose monolithic applications (Rails, Django, Laravel) into domain-based services or bounded contexts, using domain-driven design principles. Define integration and data synchronization patterns between distributed systems, ensuring schema evolution and API versioning best practices. Architect core platform services—authentication, identity, content, and analytics—shared across web and mobile products. Apply deep hands-on knowledge of AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Postgres, EventBridge/SNS/SQS) and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation). Introduce observability, monitoring, and CI/CD standards (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, CircleCI) that support secure, high-quality releases. Provide technical mentorship and architectural reviews to ensure strong engineering standards and knowledge transfer across teams. Team / Collaboration Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to guide architecture decisions that optimize both user experience and technical sustainability. Contribute to architecture guilds and domain working groups, defining shared frameworks and principles for system evolution. Communicate architectural trade-offs clearly—speed vs scalability, build vs buy, monolith vs microservice—to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Author and socialize Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), domain maps, and shared service contracts to ensure alignment and ... (truncated, view full listing at source)