Software Engineering Architect/Engineer
Western Union1 day ago
Atlanta, GA, USASenior
Base Salary
$130k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build AI-assisted applications, workflow automations, internal tools, and lightweight agents across product and platform areas.
- Translate customer, agent, and business needs into specifications and end-to-end production solutions.
- Use AI to accelerate modernization, testing, documentation, observability, and engineering productivity.
- Review AI-generated code and designs for security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and quality.
- Track system adoption, usage, conversion, errors, customer friction, and operational outcomes.
- Design and maintain scalable, secure, fault-tolerant architectures for high-volume financial transactions.
- Lead architecture reviews, proofs of concept, and cross-team design discussions.
- Develop integrations with risk, compliance orchestration, third-party platforms, and digital channels.
- Build and maintain compliance back-office solutions for transaction monitoring, controls, reconciliation, and reporting.
Requirements
- Master’s degree with 5+ years of experience or bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of software development experience.
- At least 2 years of experience as a solution or technical lead in medium to large organizations.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding agents to build or accelerate software delivery.
- Ability to write effective prompts, iterate with AI tools, and validate AI outputs for production use.
- Strong full-stack knowledge spanning frontend, backend, APIs, data, cloud, and infrastructure.
- Experience with web applications, APIs, databases, event-driven systems, queues, automation, and microservices.
- Experience with Java/J2EE, web technologies, web services, and frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
- Strong understanding of secure coding, privacy, compliance, reliability, observability, and production readiness in regulated environments.
- Preferred experience with risk and compliance back-office controls and case-management applications.
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work full-time in the United States.
Benefits
- Hybrid Atlanta work arrangement with an expectation of at least three days per week in the office.
- Short-term incentives and multiple health insurance options.
- Accident, life, medical, dental, and other location-specific insurance benefits.
- Paid time off, parental leave, and one day of volunteer time off.
- Tuition assistance, student loan repayment below manager level, and global scholarship awards.
- 401(k) plan, employee discount program, quarterly recognition program, global adoption assistance, and a $0 money-transfer-fee discount code.
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About Western Union
Western Union provides cross-border consumer and business payment services, including digital and agent-based money transfers, bill pay, and remittances. It generates revenue from transaction fees and foreign-exchange spreads, serves customers in over 200 countries and territories through retail agents and digital channels, and is a public company founded in 1851 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with shares listed on the NYSE and BMV.