Western Union is looking to modernize its software engineering organization to develop products that connect millions of users globally
Requirements
- Hands on engineering manager with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing large scale microservices
- Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Spring boot, DynamoDB/Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patterns for implementing microservices
- Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D
- 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)
Responsibilities
- Manage a scrum team designing and developing APIs and microservices
- 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
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields with 10+ years of professional experience or master’s degree with 8+ years of experience
- Excellent decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills
- 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
- Provide coaching to Junior engineers on the team
