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Western Union · 1 day ago

Sr Engineering Manager

Austin, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$150K/yr - $185K/yr

8+ years exp

Western Union is a global leader in financial services, and they are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to help modernize their software engineering organization. In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native microservices, managing a scrum team and collaborating with distributed engineering teams to ensure reliability and performance.

Financial ExchangesFinancial ServicesInternetMobile PaymentsPayments

No H1B

Responsibilities

Manage a scrum team designing and developing APIs and microservices

Develop and implement new software, maintain and improve existing software

Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization

Recommend improvements to existing software programs

Troubleshoot application issues and coordinate issue resolution with operations, functional, and technical teams

Work as service lead with development team across geographically distributed structure

Review design and code from different scrum teams and ensure service level standards are enforced

Responsible for maintaining quality and engineering metrics of specific microservices as a services owner

Provide coaching to Junior engineers on the team

Works independently on complex projects

Qualification

Microservices architectureCloud (AWS)Java Spring BootAgile methodologiesAPI developmentTeam managementCommunication skillsDecision-making skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Hands on engineering manager with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing large scale microservices

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related fields with 10+ years of professional experience or master's degree with 8+ years of experience

3+ years managing an engineering team in best practices

Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Spring boot, DynamoDB/Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patterns for implementing microservices

Proven ability to understand business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements

Excellent decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills

Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D

Demonstrated capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards

Experience with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team

Hands-on experience in building microservices based architecture and platform developed and deployed at scale

Hands-on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications

Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery)

Experience in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations