Sr Engineering Manager

Sr Engineering Manager page is loaded## Sr Engineering Manager locations:
USA TX - Austin - 11902 Burnet Rdtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todaytime left to apply:
End Date:
January 30, 2026 (30+ days left to apply) job requisition :
JR0128186
** Senior Engineering Manager – Austin, TX
***** Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Western Union will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
***** Western Union powers your pursuit.
** In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native microservices powering Western Union’s digital platform. This role serves as a hands-on technical expert and service owner, managing a small scrum team that owns microservices utilized by digital frontend teams and partner with distributed engineering teams to ensure reliability, performance, and architectural excellence.
** Role Responsibilities
*** Manage a scrum team designing and developing APIs and microservices.
* Develop and implement new software, maintain and improve existing software.
* Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization.
* Recommend improvements to existing software programs.
* Troubleshoot application issues and coordinate issue resolution with operations, functional, and technical teams.
* Work as service lead with development team across geographically distributed structure.
* Review design and code from different scrum teams and ensure service level standards are enforced.
* Responsible for maintaining quality and engineering metrics of specific microservices as a services owner.
* Provide coaching to Junior engineers on the team.
* Works independently on complex projects.
** Role Requirements
*** Hands on engineering manager with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing large scale microservices.
* Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields with 10+ years of professional experience or master’s degree with 8+ years of experience.
* Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Spring boot, Dynamo

DB/Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patterns for implementing microservices.
* Proven ability to understand business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements.
* Excellent decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills.
* Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D.
* Demonstrated capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards.
* Experience with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team.
* Hands-on experience in building microservices based architecture and platform developed and deployed at scale.
* Hands-on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications.
* Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery).
* Experience in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations.
** Preferred Qualifications
*** Experience in Fin Tech industry
* Experience in building external customer-facing applications with open-source technologies and understanding of front-end tech stack
* Experience managing team performance utilizing an engineering metrics-based approach
** We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.
** As part of the application process, all applicants are required to take assessments. Western Union has partnered with a 3rd party provider to administer these tests. Applicants will need to provide their name and email address in order to process the assessments. If you have any questions, you may reach out to  are passionate about honoring our employee's identity and fostering a feeling of belonging.

Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams while reflecting…