Western Union is looking to improve the digital financial customer experience by enhancing its global platforms through the standardization and simplification of complex interfacing platforms, specifically focusing on money transfers, digital banking, and digital wallets.
Requirements
- A minimum of 7+ years of professional in delivering functional and technical solutions to financial services.
- Experience working on Money transfer platforms or Core Bank systems or other retail financial platforms.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, implementing APIs in public cloud environments, especially in the Retail financial industry.
- Solid foundation and extensive experience in Java/J2EE, Java Spring boot, AWS, Cloud Mesh architecture, DevOps, Security fundamentals.
- Strong technical skills in architecture patterns, solutions design, and integration development.
- Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D
- Hands-on experience building a microservices-based architecture and platform developed and deployed at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead work on innovative, actionable, and efficient technology solutions to drive the development of APIs that cater to various business functions.
- Demonstrate strong capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards.
- Interface and collaborate with other engineers in geographically distributed development centers.
- Strong emphasis on customer journey, product quality, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and continuous development
- Develop technical & domain expertise and apply in solving product challenges.
- Estimate engineering efforts, plan implementation, and roll out applications with cross-functional and cross-regional impacts.
- Mentor and coach engineers to deliver faster by utilizing AI tools to assist in code development.
Other
- 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.
- A bachelor’s degree in software engineering, IT, or relevant discipline is preferred. Other relevant Software Engineering experiences in the Banking or FinTech industry will be considered.
- Ability to evaluate business needs and achieve alignment among stakeholders, with excellent verbal and written communication skills for managing both direct and indirect talent effectively.
- The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.
- We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status.
