Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack - Java / Data Engineering)

  • 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

Note :

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the evolving visa/travel restrictions in place, we are currently only able to extend offers to candidates who are currently in Singapore with the right to work in Singapore. We are keeping the situation under close review and will adjust accordingly should the restrictive measures be lifted.

Visa Regional Solutions and Digitial Partnership focuses on building technology for the next generation of payments. We work on solving hard problems of the future in IoT, Mobile, UX, Web and Data Analytics. We are looking for hands-on expert level software engineers to help us build some innovative products.

This role requires quick problem solving skills, logical thinking, and application of programming techniques to design, build, and maintain code. Deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms is a must. In addition to the technical skill set, the candidate will be a self-starter, results-driven, and equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

The Staff Software Engineer is an individual contributor role, and this developer will work on development of several innovation projects. These projects will be instrumental in making an impact on Visa and the payments industry as a whole.

You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will be take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time REST services and mobile applications that are highly functional, distributed, secure, scalable and resilient. We believe in self-managing Agile teams who build products end to end focusing on unit testing, code reviews and continuous integration for excellent code quality.  You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors, delight the customer with faster times for market delivery.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit.

Responsibilities:

  • You’ll help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs.
  • You will build partnerships with product management to make sure that the products we are building deliver real value.
  • You’ll use technologies that include Java, REST, Android, Swift,  React, Node.js, NoSQL, Docker and more.
  • You will analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solution.
  • You have the work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems.
  • Your DNA would include following and creating software best practices and processes.
  • You coach and mentor your team members and help them grow professionally.
  • You’ll lead meeting and discussions with cross-functional and non-technical teams.
  • You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!

Qualifications

Basic

  • 5 or more years of relevant 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

Preferred

  • 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA,  JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
  • Expert level skills in Java 
  • In-depth knowledge of data structures implementation and optimization
  • Experience with highly distributed, scalable, concurrent and low latency systems working with one or more of the following technologies is preferred: Hadoop distributions, Spark, Kafka, NoSQL data warehouses such as HBase, MongoDB.
  • Expert level skills in multi-threading, concurrency, and error-handling
  • Expert level skills in implementing design patterns (singleton, facade, factory, observer etc.)
  • Experience building enterprise scale web services (RESTful), and their scalability, resiliency, and availability
  • Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, and implementing large components for enterprise projects

Desired qualifications

  • Experience in building ODATA compliant REST services
  • Experience in AWS or any AWS certification is a plus
  • Experience in language features such as lambda expressions, generics, and streams
  • Experience implementing multiple cross cutting concerns and non-functional requirements using aspect oriented programming (viz. aspectJ) 
  • Experience in payments tech industry
  • Experience building application frameworks or reusable components

 

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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