Western Union India
Western Union enables people worldwide to transfer money seamlessly and provides financial services to those lacking traditional access. We’re proud to be at the forefront of financial services technology innovation. Learn more about what it’s like at one of our largest locations and consider if one of our open roles is a career match for you.
About Pune Global Capability Center
Established in 2018 as a strategic talent center focused on innovation to help expand the reach of Western Union’s omnichannel platform and digital efforts. The site has 1,200+ employees, building end-to-end products, solutions, and capabilities to deliver a better customer experience globally.
With a strong culture of innovation, learning, and recognition, the Pune GCC has evolved into a cornerstone of Western Union’s global strategy driving agility, modernization, and continuous growth for customers and colleagues alike.
A Vision for Growth, Collaboration and Impact
Our mission goes beyond writing code or building platforms. We are reimagining how money moves across borders and cultures. Hear from our India Site Leader on why technology professionals should start a career with us.
Voices of Western Union India
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their stories reflect the passion, purpose, and innovation that drive our journey every day. Hear from our colleagues at Pune as they share what it means to grow, collaborate, and make an impact at Western Union.
A Pawan Kishore
Compliance Solution
Data Engineering
Learn about our tech teams
Western Union in Pune is transforming and shaping the financial services sector by driving innovation, quality, convenience, and customer service to new levels of excellence. If you’re ready to unleash your potential to help drive change through bottom-up innovation.
Customer Experience
This team enables consumers and businesses to move money across borders securely and seamlessly through Digital and Retail Channels. It provides the ease and convenience to transfer and receive money from almost everywhere in the world Online, the WU App, over the phone, or in-person at our locations. We deliver these solutions with cross-functional Agile Teams using niche technologies like React Native, React JS, HTML5, CSS3, Typescript, JSON, SOAP, REST, GraphQL, Cloud, and Microservices.
Compliance Solution
This team helps prevent fraud and implement Anti Money Laundering programs like Know Your Customer, Know Your Agent, Sanctions and PEP Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Regulatory Reporting, and Case Management. We drive the engineering execution of large transformation programs that are re-imagining the Compliance ecosystem using new-age technologies and capabilities in User Experience design, Microservices, Cloud, and Artificial Intelligence.
Data Engineering
This team covers processing risks and payments data in real-time for fraud analysts to validate flagged transactions before they approve them to ensure customers’ money is reaching safe hands. The team manages 3+ petabytes of data in AWS cloud for various use cases and uses technologies like EMR, Kafka, Spark Streaming, Java, Talend, and Informatica to process our data. We have an enterprise data platform and marketplace built on Snowflake and we also use databases like HBase and PostgreSQL.
Caring for our employees and their families
Our “Global Total Rewards Program” aims to support the health and well-being of our employees and their families, including domestic partners. We review benchmarking information annually to help inform any changes or additions to our benefits programs.
The following global benefits are generally* available to all full-time employees:
Medical Benefits
Traditional medical/hospitalization plans or allowances to pay for medical expenses incurred by employees and their dependents.
Paid Time Off
Employees are entitled to various forms of paid leaves that may include paid time off, sickness, maternity, paternity, caregiver, or military leaves.
Global Recognition & Rewards Program
Our Bravo! recognition program gives employees real-time appreciation (and points for gifts) from managers and colleagues for significant contributions to the organization.
Employee Assistance Program
Counseling, legal, and other professional services are made available to our employees.
Risk Insurance Benefits
Various forms of insurance (life, disability, accidental death & dismemberment) are available in all countries either as traditional insurance policies or allowances.
Western Union Scholarship Program
For each child, employees can apply for one of 10 granted scholarships a year, worth $2,500.
Global Adoption Assistance
We reimburse up to $10,000 per adoption for eligible expenses.
Business Travel Assistance & Insurance
We provide an international business travel accident policy for employees traveling on authorized company business.
Discounted Fees on Money Transfers
Employees are eligible for discounted fees on a variety of Western Union money transfer services.
Employee Wellness
We provide access to the Headspace app and Tutor.com to help support employees’ mental health and work-life balance.
Medical Benefits
Traditional medical / hospitalization plans or allowances to pay for medical expenses incurred by employees and their dependents.
Paid Time Off
Employees are entitled to various forms of paid leaves that may include paid time off, sick, maternity, paternity, caregiver, or military leaves.
Global Recognition & Rewards Program
Our Bravo! Recognition program gives employees real-time appreciation (and points for gifts) from managers & colleagues for significant contributions to the organization.
Employee Assistance Program
Counseling, legal, and other professional services are made available to our employees.
Risk Insurance Benefits
Various forms of insurance (life, disability, accidental death & dismemberment) are available in all countries either as traditional insurance policies or allowances.
Western Union Scholarship Program
Employees can apply for a college
scholarship of $2,500 for their
children.
Global Adoption Assistance
For employees looking to adopt children, we reimburse up to $10,000 per adoption for eligible expenses.
Business Travel Assistance & Insurance
We provide an international business travel accident policy for employees traveling on authorized company business.
Discounted Fees on Money Transfers
Employees are eligible for discounted fees on a variety of Western Union money transfer services.
Employee Wellness
We provide access to the Headspace app and Tutor.com to help support employees’ mental health and work-life balance.
*The benefits presented here may vary by country and office location. In most of our global offices, there are even more employee benefits to enjoy. Please connect with your Recruiter during the interview process to obtain benefit information specific to your potential location and role.
