Application Architect

Western Union•Austin, TX

2d•$125,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Application Architect – Austin, TX Are you ready to help modernize a software engineering organization that develops products to connect millions of users globally? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse organization where our unique contributions are recognized and celebrated, allowing each of us to thrive? Then it’s time to join Western Union as an Application Architect, Digital Platform! Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Western Union will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Western Union powers your pursuit. In this role, you 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.

Requirements

Hands-on technical lead with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing large-scale microservices.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields with 7+ years of professional experience or master’s degree with 5+ years of 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.
Demonstrated capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards
Experience with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team
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 (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery)
Experience in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations.

Nice To Haves

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

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.
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.

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few (https://careers.westernunion.com/global-benefits/).
Paid Time Off
Medical, Dental and Life Insurance
Tuition Assistance Program
Student Loan Repayment (below manager level only)
Parental Leave
One day volunteer time off
$0 Money Transfer Fee Discount Code – Quarterly
Recognition Program “Game Changers”
Employee Discount Program
Global Adoption Assistance
Global Scholarship Awards Program
401K plan