Hybrid Cloud Microservices Lead Engineer

Relha LLC; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Medical, Dental and Life Insurance

Tuition Assistance Program

Student Loan Repayment

Money Transfer Fee Discount Code

Game Changers Recognition Program

Employee Discount Program

Global Adoption Assistance

401K plan

Job summary

Western Union is seeking a hands-on technical lead to design and deliver scalable microservices powering its digital platform. You will guide distributed teams, review designs, and drive code quality and API excellence.

Required are 3+ years at master's level or 5+ years with a bachelor’s in CS, plus strong Java Spring Boot, AWS, and modern data stores. Role emphasizes TDD, CI/CD, and fintech domain experience.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical lead with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing large-scale microservices.
• Master’s with 3+ years or bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields with 5+ years of professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Spring boot, DynamoDB/Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patterns for implementing microservices.
• Proven ability to understand business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements.
• Excellent decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D.
• Hands-on experience in building microservices based architecture and platform developed and deployed at scale.
• Hands-on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications.
• Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD.
• Experience in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations.

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.
• 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.
• Provide coaching to Junior engineers on the team.
• Works independently on complex projects.

Skills

Technical leadership

Microservices design

Java Spring Boot

Cloud AWS

Distributed systems

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

DynamoDB

Postgres

Kafka

Redis

Apache Camel

Job description

Western Union is seeking a hands-on technical lead to design and deliver scalable microservices powering its digital platform. You will guide distributed teams, review designs, and drive code quality and API excellence.

Required are 3+ years at master's level or 5+ years with a bachelor’s in CS, plus strong Java Spring Boot, AWS, and modern data stores. Role emphasizes TDD, CI/CD, and fintech domain experience.