Staff Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026. Western Union scores A on the Alion truth index.
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 formaintainingquality and engineering metrics of specific microservices as aservicesowner.
Provide coaching to Junior engineers on the team.
Works independently on complex projects.
Assess business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance toemergingtechnology standards.
Performstrongdecision-making, communication, and collaboration skills.
Performcomputer 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;Equivalentwork experiencein lieuof adegree.
2+Demonstratedexperience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Spring boot, DynamoDB/Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patterns for implementing microservices.
2+yearsofhands-on technical lead withdemonstratedexperience in designing and implementing large scale microservices.
2+years ofexperiencewith agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery).
1+years ofexperiencewith architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team.
1+yearshands-on experience in building microservices based architecture andplatformdeveloped and deployed at scale.
1+yearshands-on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications.
1+yearsof experiencein Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations.
6monthshands-on experience using AI coding agents to build or accelerate end-to-end software delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience inFinTechindustry.
Experience in building external customer-facing applications with open-source. technologies and understanding of front-end tech stack
Estimated Job Posting End Date:
11-30-2026This 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.