Senior Integration Architect - Cloud-Native Payments

The Western Union Company; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Medical, Dental and Life Insurance

Tuition Assistance Program

Job summary

The Western Union Company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Integration Architect for NA and LACA. You will lead design and delivery of secure, scalable payment processor integrations and guide partner onboarding using AWS-based microservices and Java/Spring Boot.

Fluency in English and Spanish is essential to collaborate with regional stakeholders and external partners. This role embraces hybrid work with a strong emphasis on architecture, reliability, and cloud-native patterns.

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering enterprise integration solutions and APIs.
• 5+ years with payment processors, banks, or remittance networks.
• 6+ years developing Java apps with Spring Boot and microservices.
• 2+ years using AI coding agents to speed delivery.
• Experience with external partners, vendors, and banking institutions.
• Bilingual English/Spanish for NA and LACA collaboration.
• Experience leading end-to-end integration programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and delivery of scalable integration across NA and LACA.
• Define enterprise integration patterns, APIs, and reference architectures for onboarding.
• Partner with business, product, operations, and external stakeholders to align solutions.
• Act as technical lead for payment processor, banking, and financial institution integrations.
• Develop AWS-based microservices using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs.
• Design secure, resilient, highly available integrations with event-driven patterns and Kafka.
• Build solutions for payment processing, routing, settlement, reconciliation, and enablement.
• Create reusable integration frameworks and API standards to improve speed and scale.
• Collaborate with external partners through design, testing, and production rollout.
• Promote AI-assisted engineering to boost productivity, testing, and docs.

Skills

Enterprise integration design

Payment processor experience

Java & Spring Boot

API integration patterns

English & Spanish

External partner engagement

AI-assisted development tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Spring Boot

AI coding agents

Job description

The Western Union Company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Integration Architect for NA and LACA. You will lead design and delivery of secure, scalable payment processor integrations and guide partner onboarding using AWS-based microservices and Java/Spring Boot.

Fluency in English and Spanish is essential to collaborate with regional stakeholders and external partners. This role embraces hybrid work with a strong emphasis on architecture, reliability, and cloud-native patterns.