Software Engineer

Position location:  Austin, TX

Role Responsibilities 

Omni-Channel Integration services (OIS) are cross-domain orchestration APIs designed to deliver consistent behavior across diverse customer-facing channels. By abstracting channel-specific complexities, OIS ensures seamless integration and unified experiences, regardless of the interface. As a Software Engineer in the Integrations Engineering team, your primary responsibility is to create a consistent and seamless integration in collaboration with other engineers.

• Demonstrate strong capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards
• Interface and collaborate with other engineers in geographically distributed development centers
• Apply Agile methodology daily and follow Definition of Done (DoD) process for better quality by maintaining 80% and unit test coverage and 70% integration test coverage
• Develop technical & domain expertise and apply to solving product challenges
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and roll out applications with cross-functional impacts
• Share engineering support, release and execute through diligent planning, attention to detail
• Strong emphasis on customer journey, product quality, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and continuous development
• Adopt a culture champion mindset on the team and across the company

Role Requirements 

• Bachelor’s in computer science or related fields with 4+ years of professional experience or Masters with 2+ years of experience.  Equivalent work experience. 
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D
• Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages (for example, Java/C++) and design patterns
• Team player with strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment and adapt to changing business priorities and to thrive under pressure
• Strong hands-on experience building applications using Java, Spring Boot framework, Postgress or similar databases, Multithreading, serialization, externalization, collections, etc.
• Experience with J2EE technologies, DevOps tools, XML, Web technologies, Web Services Experience with APIs, REST/JSON, Microservices, Observability Tools (Eg. Dynatrace)
• Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery)
• Experience with unit testing and mocking frameworks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for managing both direct and indirect talent effectively.

Applicants 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.

Work Shift

HYBRID - Western Union values in-person collaboration, problem solving, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this fosters common ways of working and supports how we execute initiatives for our customers. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few
(https://careers.westernunion.com/global-benefits/). Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

Your United States – Specific Benefits Include

• Paid Time Off  
• Medical, Dental and Life Insurance 
• Tuition Assistance Program 
• Student Loan Repayment (below manager level only) 
• Parental Leave 
• One day volunteer time off 
• $0 Money Transfer Fee Discount Code – Quarterly 
• Recognition Program “Game Changers” 
• Employee Discount Program 
• Global Adoption Assistance 
• Global Scholarship Awards Program 
• 401K plan  

For residents of Colorado, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania: Please do not respond to any questions on this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

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