About this 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.
R ole Responsibilities
- 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.
- A ssess business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards.
- Perform strong decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Perfo rm computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D.
Role Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or related fields with 5 + years of professional experience or MS with 5+ years of experience ; Equivalent work experienc e in li eu of a degre e.
- 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 h ands - on technical lead with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing large scale microservices.
- 2+ year s of e xperience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery).
- 1+ yea rs of e xperience with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team.
- 1+ year s h ands -on experience in building microservices based architecture and platform developed and deployed at scale.
- 1+ y ears h ands -on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications.
- 1+ year s of e xperience in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations.
- 6 mon ths h ands -on experience using AI coding agents to build or accelerate end-to-end software delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in FinTech industry.
- Experience in building external customer-facing applications with open-source. technologies and understanding of front-end tech stack
Estimated Job Posting End Date:
11-30-2026
This application window is a good-faith estimate of the time that this posting will remain open. This posting will be promptly updated if the deadline is extended or the role is filled.