Staff Software Engineer (Golang / Java / Fullstack)

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

This position is an individual contributor role on the Network Processing  Development Team. The successful candidate will be part of a team to design and develop microservices and perform unit and integration testing on newly developed components. Candidate will assist with troubleshooting and resolving defects during the software development life cycle. This role will also contribute to building and maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Pipelines. Candidate will interface directly with staff members of Development, Product Management, Project Management, and Quality Assurance.

As a key member of the development team, the candidate should be comfortable with driving technical ideas and communicating clearly with technical as well as non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Take complete end-to-end technical & engineering ownership of one or more applications. 
  • As a fullstack developer, design, develop, document and implement new functionality, as well as build enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
  • Coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure they are delivering quality and efficiently against project requirements.
  • Take a hands on role in influencing and guiding day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation
  • Be the ambassador for engineering best practice across the development lifecycle and champion continuous improvement across the Centre
  • Define solutions in terms of components, modules and algorithms
  • Refactor existing solutions to make it reusable and scalable
  • Leads and/or supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business.
  • Create design documents, code, unit/functional test, document and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
  • Must be able to understand the positioning of a solution within the company and to build consensus to effectively gain buy-in from all participants.
  • Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and systems.
  • Design and develop microservices based application using Golang / Java/ ReactJs and others.
  • Develop TDD/BDD unit-tests and oversee execution.
  • Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.
  • Prepare design documents; evaluate and recommend solutions to meet user requirements; define and implement solutions.
  • Participate in the Agile process including stand-up meetings, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
  • Lead by example; demonstrating accountability, mentoring junior team members, and by contributing to departmental procedures, best practices, and standards.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with teams across multiple timezones.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

  • 6 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 7-10 years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree or 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 years of experience with a PhD.
  • Be passionate about technology and solving large-scale complex business problems.
  • Be an established self-starter who possesses a relentless drive to initiate change, raise the technical bar and deliver result
  • Experience in developing web based application and / or microservices using Golang / Java/ ReactJs and others.
  • Working experience in Angular, NodeJS, MySQL and REST web services is a plus.
  • Knowledge and working experience on Git/Stash, Jenkins and Jira
  • Experience in applying modern Agile Software Development practices is required.
  • Experience with database technologies like MySQL, SQL Server.
  • Experience handling vendor product and integration with internal Windows/Linux based applications.
  • Must be capable of translating architecture into a delivered solution that realizes the vision and purpose and effectively translate functional and non-functional requirements into an engineered solution.
  • Should be able to lead the technical team in comfortably extending an existing solution, or conceiving a new solution and working with delivery to have the target state architecture realized.
  • Provides direction for selecting appropriate engineering techniques to solve for non-functional requirements at the project level.
  • Strong problem determination skills and ability to resolve critical issues for complex systems under tight timeframes using dumps and other tools.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to multi task and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management. Should possess excellent planning and organizational skills.
  • Must be able to write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of a technical infrastructure.
  • Good interpersonal and facilitation skills

 

    Additional Information

    Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in Singapore are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.
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