# Senior Software Engineer - Payments Platform

Hiring organization: [Western Union](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/western-union)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/65cb5c7a-b710-480d-878f-ea1d9d0d4b71

Listed on Western Union's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Austin, TX
- Salary: 110000 – 135000 USD per year

## Summary

Senior Software Engineer needed to modernize Western Union's payment platforms across North America and Latin America using cloud-native technologies and AI-assisted development practices. This role suits experienced backend engineers comfortable with Java, AWS microservices, and distributed systems who want to work on high-volume transaction processing at scale.

_Our summary, not Western Union's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Aurora, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, CI/CD, Docker, DynamoDB, Java, Kubernetes, Microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST APIs, Spring Boot

## Required

- 4+ years applying software engineering best practices (security, reliability, scalability, observability)
- 4+ years developing cloud-native applications and microservices with Java and Spring Boot
- 3+ years developing solutions on AWS
- 1+ years with event-driven architectures
- 1+ years with cloud databases and distributed caching
- Experience in application modernization or legacy transformation
- 1+ years in Agile environments
- Currently authorized to work in the United States

## Nice to have

- 1+ years with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and infrastructure automation
- Building highly available, scalable, resilient distributed systems
- Using AI coding agents or AI-assisted development tools
- Developing RESTful APIs and Kafka-based event-driven services
- Experience in Payments, FinTech, Banking, Remittance, or high-volume transaction processing
- Supporting multi-region or globally distributed platforms
- Cloud security and secure software development practices
- Platform modernization and cloud migration experience
- Spanish language proficiency

Apply on Western Union's site: https://westernunion.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WesternUnionJobs/job/USA-TX---Austin---11902-Burnet-Rd/Senior-Software-Engineer_JR0131220