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About the Role

Western Union is seeking an Application Architect with 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable applications and microservices-based solutions. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on software engineering experience, a solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, and a passion for solving business challenges through technology. This role partners with engineering, product, and business teams to design effective solutions, improve application performance, and support the adoption of modern development practices, including AI-assisted software development tools.

Responsibilities

Hands-on coding architect working with engineering and business partners to define and build out complex solutions driving value through business process simplification, automation and new product capabilities and AI-driven innovations
Demonstrate strong capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions aligned with modern AI and data-driven technology standards
Product solutioning end-to-end new innovations, including embedding AI capabilities into core product workflows with iterative improvements
Support and contribute to developer productivity initiatives
Strong emphasis on customer journey, product quality, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and continuous development
Apply established engineering best practices and leverage AI-assisted development tools
Proven ability to improve developer productivity through AI-assisted coding practices, including code generation, automated unit test creation, and documentation synthesis
Follow established security, compliance, and development standards
Familiarity with integrating AI tools into developer workflows (IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, code review systems)
Proven ability to understand business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements
Awareness of emerging AI development tools and practices

Requirements

BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field with 5+ years of professional experience, or MS with 3+ years of experience, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience developing enterprise applications using technologies using Java, Python, or similar object-oriented languages
Demonstrated experience delivering production software through the full software development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, deployment, and support
3+ years of experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices-based architectures
3+ years of experience building and operating cloud-native applications at scale, preferably on AWS (Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, etc.)
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

Skills

AWS Developer Associate, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent cloud certification
Experience in fintech domains, including payments, risk management, compliance, fraud detection, banking, or financial services
Experience implementing AI-enabled products using LLMs, agentic workflows, vector databases, RAG architectures, or AI orchestration frameworks
Experience driving developer productivity initiatives and AI-assisted software engineering practices at team or organizational scale

Location

Austin, TX

Work Type

HYBRID
full-time

Experience Level

5+ years of experience

Education Level

BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
MS

Salary/Compensations

$125,000 - $150,000 per year

Benefits

Short-term incentives
Multiple health insurance options
Accident and life insurance
Access to best-in-class development platforms
Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
Tuition Assistance Program
Employee Discount Program
Parental Leave
401K Plan

About the Company

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.
We 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 the communities we serve.

Equal Opportunity

We do 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.