AI‑Driven Cloud Architect for Microservices

Western Union; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Ins.

Tuition Assistance Program

Employee Discount Program

Parental Leave

401K Plan

Job summary

Western Union is seeking an Application Architect in Austin, TX with 5+ years of engineering experience to design, develop, and deploy scalable applications and microservices. The role focuses on cloud‑native architectures and AI‑assisted development, collaborating with engineering, product, and business teams to deliver value.

The ideal candidate will lead architecture decisions, improve performance, support modern development practices, and drive AI‑driven product innovations while ensuring

Qualifications

• 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 Java, Python, or similar object‑oriented languages. Includes 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.).

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.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Cloud-native architectures

AI-assisted software development

Education

BS in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field

MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

RESTful APIs

Microservices architectures

AWS (Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS)

Job description

Western Union is seeking an Application Architect in Austin, TX with 5+ years of engineering experience to design, develop, and deploy scalable applications and microservices. The role focuses on cloud‑native architectures and AI‑assisted development, collaborating with engineering, product, and business teams to deliver value.

The ideal candidate will lead architecture decisions, improve performance, support modern development practices, and drive AI‑driven product innovations while ensuring