Director, Software Engineering

Role Responsibilities
In this role the Director of Software Engineering to lead our payments Funds-out platform with a strong emphasis on integrating with payment processors and financial networks. This role will drive architecture scalability and reliability of our payment platform ensuring seamless transaction flows across global markets.

• Create vision strategy and plan to build a high performing engineering organization
• Demonstrate strong capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards
• Balance delivery velocity through existing platforms and adoption of next-gen technologies
• Execute success through diligent planning attention to detail effective delegation and efficient decision-making
• Lead a high-performing global engineering team focused on payments and financial integrations
• Strong emphasis on customer journey product quality performance tuning troubleshooting and continuous development
• Collaborate with external partners and vendors to manage integrations and SLAs.
• Be a culture champion on the team and across the company fostering a culture of ownership innovation and continuous learning

Role Requirements

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science Engineering or related field.
• 10 years of experience in software engineering with 3 years in enterprise payments or fintech.
• Deep experience integrating with payment processors and financial networks.
• Hands on Experience with event-driven microservices-based and AWS architecture to enable scalable resilient and real-time payment systems.
• Excellent leadership communication and stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team
• Proven ability to understand business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements
• Demonstrated capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards
• Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery)
• Knowledge of regulatory standards (e.g. PCI-DSS PSD2 SOX)
• Proven capability to diagnose and resolve issues in high-pressure customer-impacting scenarios to maintain service continuity and trust

Work Shift

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. Please see the benefits below specific to your country. If applicable additional role-specific benefits will be mentioned 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

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Salary

The on-target earnings range is $USD per year which includes a base salary and short-term and long-term incentives that align with individual and company performance. Actual salaries will vary based on candidates qualifications skills and competencies.

Other Details

As part of the application process all applicants are required to take assessments. Western Union has partnered with a 3rd party provider to administer these tests. Applicants will need to provide their name and email address in order to process the assessments. If you have any questions you may reach out to

We are passionate about honoring our employees identity and fostering a feeling of belonging. 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 based on race color national origin religion political affiliation sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation gender identity age disability marital status or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants including those with disabilities during the recruitment process following applicable laws.

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