Senior Architect, Software Engineering — Gateway Platform

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural design of APIs used by Western Union's partners to initiate money transfers, bill payments, money orders, and other financial activities.
• Drive the migration of partner integrations from legacy SOAP-based services to modern RESTful APIs, including client onboarding, versioning strategy, and deprecation planning.
• Define and govern API design standards — including versioning, backward compatibility, contracts, error handling, and developer experience — across the Gateway platform.
• Build applications, workflow automations, internal tools, and basic agents using AI coding agents within Western Union's product and platform areas.
• Use AI to accelerate modernization, testing, documentation, observability, and engineering productivity.
• Drive engineering excellence through Agile methodologies, TDD, thorough code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementations, and coordinate rollouts with cross-functional and cross-regional impact.
• Support engineering incidents and releases.

Role Requirements

• Bachelor’s in computer science or related fields with 10+ years of professional experience or master’s with 8+ years of experience.
• 6+ years of professional experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices-based architectures deployed at enterprise scale.
• 5+ years of professional experience building backend applications and microservices using Java and Spring Boot framework (including Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Spring Security).
• Previously lead a SOAP-to-REST migration.
• Experience with event-driven integrations using Apache Kafka, JMS, or equivalent Pub/Sub frameworks.
• Professional experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with observability and monitoring frameworks (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, or similar).
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle) and/or NoSQL data stores.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Payments, FinTech, or Financial Services domains — particularly with partner or third-party API ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) in a production engineering context.
• Experience with API gateway platforms (AWS API Gateway, Apigee, Kong, or similar).
• Experience with NoSQL databases (Couchbase, Cassandra, or similar).

Benefits

• Short-term incentives
• Multiple health insurance options
• Accident and life insurance
• Access to best-in-class development platforms
• Paid Time Off
• Medical, Dental and Life Insurance
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Student Loan Repayment (below manager level only)
• Parental Leave
• $0 Money Transfer Fee Discount Code – Quarterly Recognition Program
• “Game Changers” Employee Discount Program
• Global Adoption Assistance
• Global Scholarship Awards Program
• 401K plan

Schedule

HYBRID - Western Union values in-person collaboration, problem solving, and ideation whenever possible. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

Pay

Annual base salary range is $155,000 – 180,000 USD per year. Total on-target compensation includes a base salary and short-term that align with individual and company performance. Actual salaries will vary based on candidates’ qualifications, skills, and competencies.