Staff Software Engineer
Western Union

Staff Software Engineer - San Francisco, California

Are you looking to build a career in the financial services sector? How about unleashing your skills in a hugely successful business that is committed to moving money for better? Join Western Union as a Staff Software Engineer.

Motivated by our values: purpose driven, globally minded, and trustworthy & respectful

We're a FinTech that's using insight from customers and colleagues worldwide to improve financial services for families, small businesses, multinational corporations, and non-profit organizations. We're a team of over 10,000 people spanning 200 countries and territories. We believe when money moves, better things happen.

Better requires process, discipline, and simplification

We'll be looking to you to implement a service delivery model supporting assigned platforms through a predefined framework. This includes the Western Union payment pricing engine, operation support, and transaction settlement processing. You will be responsible to develop and implement new software, maintain and improve existing software making sure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization. In addition, you will troubleshoot application issues and coordinate issue resolution with operations, functional, and technical teams.

Ideally, you will have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field together with 8 to 10 years of software development experience with J2EE full stack. You will have knowledge of architecture design concepts, object-oriented design and techniques, logical and physical database architectures and operating systems. You will also have extensive experience design pattern - ESB, MVC, ORM. You will also have demonstrated experience with Containers and Microservices. You will also have expert level experience with Java including Collections, Multi-Threading and Streaming. Experience in Lean, Agile and Iterative development methodologies is also desirable.

Join us, and let's connect the world

Western Union is transforming its business and shaping the financial services sector by driving quality, convenience, and customer service to new levels of excellence. It's an exciting time for our organization, as the largest cross-border money transfer operator, trusted by millions of consumers around the world. If you're ready to unleash your potential to help drive change through bottom-up innovation, apply now.

We're a company on the move, and we want our people to grow and develop. You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as a great salary and benefits package.

We are passionate about our diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams, while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran (U.S.) status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, in accordance with applicable laws.

Annual base salary gross:  $104,938.00 - $184,620.00. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the Western Union salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of Western Union's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include short term incentives, health insurance (several options to choose from), accident and life insurance, access to the best in class learning and development platforms, to name just a few! To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://2020-2021.mywubenefits.com In addition to the annual salary, this role is also eligible to receive an annual bonus.