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.