Software Engineering Architect​/Engineer

Position location:

Atlanta, GA.

As a Software Engineering Architect at Western Union, you will use AI coding agents to accelerate building, modernizing, and improving products across our global money movement platforms. You will guide AI agents to build applications, workflow automations, internal tools, and basic AI agents that solve real customer, agent, and operational problems. You will work across engineering, product, operations, risk, compliance, and customer care to identify friction points and ship safe, reliable solutions.

• Build AI‑assisted apps, workflow automations, internal tools, and lightweight agents.
• Translate customer and business needs into clear specs and end‑to‑end production solutions.
• Use AI to speed up modernization, testing, documentation, observability, and productivity.
• Review AI‑generated code and designs to ensure security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and quality.
• Track system adoption, usage, conversion, errors, customer friction, and operational outcomes.
• Design and maintain scalable, secure, fault‑tolerant architectures for high‑volume financial transactions.
• Lead architecture reviews, proofs‑of‑concept, and design discussions across teams.
• Develop integrations with risk, compliance orchestration, third‑party platforms, and digital channels.
• Build and maintain compliance back‑office solutions such as transaction monitoring, controls, reconciliation, and reporting.

• Master’s degree with 5+ years of experience or bachelor’s with 7+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years as a solution or technical lead in medium to large organizations.
• Hands‑on experience using AI coding agents to build or speed software delivery.
• Skilled in writing effective prompts, iterating with AI tools, and validating AI outputs for production.
• Strong full‑stack knowledge: frontend, backend, APIs, data, cloud, and infrastructure.
• Experience with modern architectures: web apps, APIs, databases, event‑driven systems, queues, automation, microservices.
• Experience with Java/J2EE, web tech, web services, and frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Strong grasp of secure coding, privacy, compliance, reliability, observability, and production readiness in regulated settings.

• Experience in Risk and Compliance back‑office controls and case management applications.

Hybrid – work from the office at least three days a week.

• Short‑term incentives.
• Multiple health insurance options.
• Accident and life insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Medical, dental and life insurance.
• Tuition assistance program.
• Student loan repayment (below manager level only).
• Parental leave.
• Volunteer time off.
• 401K plan.
• Employee discount program.
• Global adoption assistance.
• Global scholarship awards program.

Western Union does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, following applicable laws.

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