Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer

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.

• 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 formaintainingqualityandengineeringmetricsofspecificmicroservices as a servicesowner.
• 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.
• Performstrongdecision-making, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Perfo rrm computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D.

• BS in Computer Science or related fields with5+ years of professional experience or MS with 5+ years of experience;
  Equivalent work experienc ein li euof a deg ree.
• 2+Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Spring boot, DynamoDB/Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patterns for implementing microservices.
• 2+years ofh ands- on technical lead withdemonstratedexperience in designing and implementing large scale microservices.
• 2+years ofex experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery).
• 1+yea rs of ex experience with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team.
• 1+years h ands- on experience in building microservices based architecture and platform developed and deployed at scale.
• 1+years h ands- on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications.
• 1+ years of e xperience in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations.
• 6mons h ands- 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

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