Cloud-Native AI-Driven Application Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life保险

Tuition Assistance

Employee Discount Program

Parental Leave

401K Plan

Job summary

The Western Union Company in Austin, TX is seeking an Application Architect with 5+ years of experience to design, develop, and deploy scalable applications and microservices. This role collaborates with engineering, product, and business teams to craft solutions that improve performance and automate processes, while embracing AI-assisted development tools.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on software engineering experience, strong cloud-native knowledge, and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field with 5+ years of professional experience, or MS with 3+ years, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience developing enterprise applications using Java, Python, or similar languages.
• 3+ years of experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
• 3+ years of building and operating cloud-native applications at scale, preferably on AWS.
• Experience in fintech domains such as payments, risk, or banking is a plus.

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.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

RESTful APIs

Cloud-native architectures

AI-assisted development

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS cloud services

AI tooling integration

CI/CD / IDEs code review

Job description

The Western Union Company in Austin, TX is seeking an Application Architect with 5+ years of experience to design, develop, and deploy scalable applications and microservices. This role collaborates with engineering, product, and business teams to craft solutions that improve performance and automate processes, while embracing AI-assisted development tools.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on software engineering experience, strong cloud-native knowledge, and a track record of delivering