Western Union, LLC is hiring: Senior Staff Software Engineer (Pricing and Retail
Western Union, LLC, Denver, CO, US
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Pricing and Retail Services) (Western Union, LLC, Denver, CO)
Define the long-term technical architecture and system design for the product, ensuring alignment with enterprise infrastructure, business goals, emerging technologies, and evolving customer needs. Research, evaluate, and adopt cutting-edge system and infrastructure technologies to enhance product capabilities and overall computing environments. Design the architecture for large-scale, distributed, and highly scalable systems across multiple domains, focusing on integration, modularity, reusability, security, and maintainability. Establish and ensure adherence to enterprise architectural frameworks and design patterns that support interoperability and system efficiency. Collaborate closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, and business stakeholders to ensure that architectural solutions meet customer needs and business objectives. Assist with system performance tuning, optimization of networked components, and proactive identification of bottlenecks across the full stack, including cloud infrastructure and databases. Analyze post-production system data to measure performance, reliability, and scalability, integrating findings into continuous architectural improvements. Conduct technical workshops, architecture reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions to elevate system design expertise within the team. Use metrics, logs, and performance data to inform decisions regarding system architecture improvements, infrastructure enhancements, and platform reliability. Ensure end-to-end system integrity and quality across development, testing, and production environments, implementing proactive measures for reliability and security. Define and implement processes for infrastructure automation, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines to ensure stable, predictable system operations. Telecommuting permitted 1-2 days per week. When not telecommuting, must report to Western Union, LLC at 7001 E Belleview Ave., Denver, CO 80237. Salary: $164,112 - $229,297 per year.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any occupation/position/job title involving software development in the financial services industry.
In lieu of a Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of experience, the employer will accept a Master's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any occupation/position/job title involving software development in the financial services industry.
Must also have experience in the following: 3 years of professional experience utilizing Computer Science fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPS, and OOA/D and agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery); 3 years of professional experience utilizing modern programming languages including Java and design patterns; 3 years of professional experience assessing business needs to provide solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards and building high performance and large-scale real-time systems that scale to billions of transactions per day; 3 years of professional experience utilizing Java/J2EE, XML, Web technologies, Web Services, and NoSQL; 3 years of professional experience performing unit testing and utilizing mocking frameworks; 3 years of professional experience creating and consuming RESTful and SOAP Based Web Services; 3 years of professional experience utilizing SML, JSON, Node JS, and JavaScript; and 3 years of professional experience developing data-ingesting applications using an industry standard RDBMS.
CONTACT: Apply online at
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