Staff Software Engineer

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.  

R ole 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.  

• Build applications, workflow   automation’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 for   maintaining   quality and engineering metrics of specific microservices as a   services   owner.  

• Provide coaching to Junior engineers on the team.  

• Works independently on complex projects.  

• A ssess business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to   emerging   technology standards.   

• Perform   strong   decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills.  

• Perfo rm   computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D.  

Role Requirements   

• BS in Computer Science or related fields with   5 + years of professional experience or MS with 5+ years of experience ;   Equivalent   work experienc e   in li eu   of a   degre e.   

• 2+   Demonstrated   experience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Spring boot, DynamoDB/Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patterns for implementing microservices.    

• 2+   years   of   h ands - on technical lead with   demonstrated   experience in designing and implementing large scale microservices.     

• 2+   year s of   e xperience   with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery).   

• 1+   yea rs of   e xperience   with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team.   

• 1+   year s   h ands -on experience in building microservices based architecture and   platform   developed and deployed at scale.   

• 1+   y ears   h ands -on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications.   

• 1+   year s   of e xperience   in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations.   

• 6   mon ths   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:

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