Software Engineer - Digital Platform

Position location:
Austin, TX

The Staff Software Engineer 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, partnering with distributed engineering teams to ensure reliability, performance, and architectural excellence.

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.

• Develop and implement new software, maintain and improve existing software
• Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization.
• Build applications, workflow automation's, internal tools, and basic agents using AI coding agents within Western Union's product and platform areas.
• 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.
• Assess business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards.
• Perform strong decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Perform computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D.

• BS in Computer Science or related fields with 5+ years of professional experience or MS with 5+ years of experience;
  Equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree.
• 2+ Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Spring boot, DynamoDB/Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patternsfor implementing microservices.
• 2+ years of hands-on technical lead with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing large scale microservices.
• 2+ years of experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery).
• 1+ years of experience with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team.
• 1+ years hands-on experience in building microservices based architecture and platform developed and deployed at scale.
• 1+ years hands-on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications.
• 1+ years of experience in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations.
• 6 months hands-on experience using AI coding agents to build or accelerate end-to-end software delivery.

• Experience in Fin Tech industry.
• Experience in building external customer-facing applications with open-source. technologies and understanding of front-end tech stack

HYBRID -Western Union values in-person collaboration, problem solving, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this fosters common ways of working and supports how we execute initiatives for our customers. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few
(). Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

• Paid Time Off
• Medical, Dental and Life Insurance
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Student Loan Repayment (below manager level only)
• Parental Leave
• One day volunteer time off
• $0 Money Transfer Fee Discount Code
  - Quarterly
• Recognition Program "Game Changers"
• Employee Discount Program
• Global Adoption Assistance
• Global Scholarship Awards Program
• 401K plan

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