Staff Software Engineer

Western Union; Austin (TX); In loco; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Western Union is seeking a Staff Software Engineer who will lead design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native microservices powering its digital platform. This role acts as a hands-on technical expert and service owner, partnering with distributed engineering teams to ensure reliability, performance, and architectural excellence.

You will mentor juniors, review designs, enforce SLAs, and drive improvements across multiple teams using AWS, Kafka, and modern patterns.

Competenze

• BS in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of professional experience.
• Proven experience in Java Spring Boot, DynamoDB or Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Apache Camel.
• 2+ years as a hands-on technical lead designing and implementing large-scale microservices.
• Experience with Agile, TDD, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to communicate architectural concepts to diverse teams.

Mansioni

• Lead design and delivery of scalable cloud-native microservices.
• Serve as service owner and drive reliability and performance.
• Coach junior engineers and collaborate with distributed teams.
• Review designs and enforce service-level standards.
• Troubleshoot and coordinate issue resolution with cross-functional teams.
• Build applications and internal tools using AI coding agents.
• Assess business needs and provide creative technology solutions.

Conoscenze

Cloud AWS

Microservices architecture

Leadership/tech lead

TDD/CI/CD

OOP/OOA&D design

AI coding agents familiarity

Distributed collaboration

Code optimization

Formazione

BS in Computer Science or related field

MS in Computer Science (or equivalent)

Strumenti

Java Spring Boot

DynamoDB

Postgres

Kafka

Redis

Apache Camel

Descrizione del lavoro

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native microservices powering Western Union's digital platform. This role serves as a hands-on technical expert and service owner, partnering with distributed engineering teams to ensure reliability, performance, and architectural excellence.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop and implement new software,maintainand improve existing software
• Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization.
• Build applications, workflowautomation's, internal tools, and basic agents using AI coding agents within Western Union's product and platform areas.
• 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.
• Responsible formaintainingqualityandengineeringmetricsofspecificmicroservices as a servicesowner.
• Provide coaching to Junior engineers on the team.
• Works independently on complex projects.
• Assess business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emergingtechnology standards.
• Performstrongdecision-making, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Perfo rrm computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D.

Role Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related fields with5+ years of professional experience or MS with 5+ years of experience; Equivalent work experienc ein li euof a deg ree.
• 2+Demonstratedexperience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Spring boot, DynamoDB/Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patternsfor implementing microservices.
• 2+years ofh ands- on technical lead withdemonstratedexperience in designing and implementing large scale microservices.
• 2+years ofex experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery).
• 1+yea rs of ex experience with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team.
• 1+years h ands- on experience in building microservices based architecture and platform developed and deployed at scale.
• 1+years h ands- on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications.
• 1+ years of e xperience in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations.
• 6mons h ands- on experience using AI coding agents to build or accelerate end-to-end software delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in FinTech industry.
• Experience in building external customer-facing applications with open-source. technologies and understanding of front-end tech stack

Estimated Job Posting End Date:

11-30-2026

This application window is a good-faith estimate of the time that this posting will remain open. This posting will be promptly updated if the deadline is extended or the role is filled.