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About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement new software, maintain and improve existing software.
• Ensure 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.

Requirements

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

• Java Spring boot
• DynamoDB/Postgres
• Kafka
• Redis
• Apache Camel
• Microservices
• Agile development methodologies
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery)
• Architecture design concepts
• Cloud (AWS)
• AI coding agents
• FinTech industry
• Front-end tech stack

Location

• Austin, TX

Work Type

• HYBRID
• full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years of professional experience
• 5+ years of experience
• 2+ years of hands-on technical lead
• 2+ years of experience
• 1+ years of experience
• 1+ years hands-on experience
• 6 months hands-on experience

Education Level

• BS in Computer Science or related fields
• MS

Salary/Compensations

• $135,000 – 160,000 USD per year

Benefits

• Short-term incentives
• Multiple health insurance options
• Accident and life insurance
• Access to best-in-class development platforms
• 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

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.