AI-Driven Cloud-Native Application Architect

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 to design, develop, and deploy scalable microservices-based solutions with 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience. The role emphasizes cloud-native AWS architectures, AI-driven development, and collaboration with engineering, product, and business teams.

The candidate will lead end-to-end solutioning, performance improvements, security adherence, and developer productivity initiatives, with a hybrid office expectation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering enterprise apps.
• 3+ years designing and implementing microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Infrastructure experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on coding architect partnering with engineering and business teams.
• Define and build complex solutions driving value and AI-driven innovations.
• Improve performance, adopt AI-assisted development tools, ensure security and standards.
• Support developer productivity and end-to-end product solutioning.

Skills

Java

Python

RESTful APIs

Cloud-native architectures

AI-assisted development

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Lambda

ECS

API Gateway

S3

DynamoDB

RDS

Job description

Western Union is seeking an Application Architect in Austin to design, develop, and deploy scalable microservices-based solutions with 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience. The role emphasizes cloud-native AWS architectures, AI-driven development, and collaboration with engineering, product, and business teams.

The candidate will lead end-to-end solutioning, performance improvements, security adherence, and developer productivity initiatives, with a hybrid office expectation.