Backend Software Engineer

Backend Software Engineer - Core Banking
Barcelona
Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

Do you view Core Banking Engineering in retail financial industry as more than just account processing, and instead see it as an opportunity to improve the Digital Banking customer experience?

As a successful developer, do you feel empowered to quickly respond to Core Banking product enhancement requests, functionality issues and implementation to ensure new Digital banking capabilities are delivered to the customers in an agile fashion?

Do you have experience working with modern Core Banking systems, solutioning and developing enhancements, implementing banking clients?

If so, why not consider joining Western Unions’ new Digital Banking hub in Madrid as a Back-End developer in our Core Banking engineering team?

Western Union powers your pursuit.

We recently launched digital banks and wallets in multiple markets to enhance our customers’ experiences with a cutting-edge digital Ecosystem.

As the Associate in the Core Banking Engineering team, your primary responsibility will be to establish core digital banking and wallet solutions globally.

Tech Stack and Tools

• REST APIs and Microservices using Java, Springboot, Cassandra DB
• Mulesoft Cloudhub, Kafka event streaming
• Mambu Cloud Banking platform, Mambu Process Orchestrator
• Marqeta for Card Issuing & processing
• Outsystems Platform for UI development
• GitLab, JIRA, Cloudbees, OpenSearch, Swaggerhub, Snowflake, Talend

Role Responsibilities

• Lead work on innovative, actionable, and efficient technology solutions to drive Core Banking systems implementations and enhancements in the assigned region.
• Demonstrate strong capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards
• Execute to success through diligent planning, attention to detail, effective delegation, and efficient decision-making
• Interface and collaborate with other engineers in geographically distributed development centers
• Strong emphasis on customer journey, product quality, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and continuous development
• Develop technical & domain expertise and apply in solving product challenges
• Share engineering support and release
• Be a culture champion on the team and across the company

Role Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related fields with 3-5 years of professional experience.
• Ability to work independently and complete assigned technical development tasks.
• Experience working with Core Banking systems. Mambu or similar core banking technology is preferred.
• Able to work in fast paced environments.
• Experience solving functional product needs by effectively leveraging the configuration capabilities of the underlying Core banking systems and MPO
• Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages (for example, Java / C++) and design patterns.
• Proven ability to understand the business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements.
• 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.

Our Hybrid Work Model (Hybrid)

Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals.

By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate. Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories.

Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location.

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 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 Spain specific benefits include :

• 25 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays
• Comprehensive life & medical cover including dependents.
• Contributory pension plan
• Preventative Care Assistance program