As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

Visa Payment Digitization Platform (VPDP) comprising of Visa Token Services (VTS) and various flavors of Visa Checkout (VCO) is part of the Visa Digital & Developer Platform (VDDP) group within the Visa Technology Organization.

Tokenization is a key pillar of Visa’s digital future, allowing innovators to develop new payment use cases where a traditional card simply is not viable (IoT, Contextual Commerce, etc,).

Visa Checkout is also evolving to being our new standards-based solution for ecommerce - Visa Digital Commerce Platform (VDCP). This platform is tightly integrated with Visa Token Services (VTS) to support provisioning of payment credentials for one-time, card-on-file and device-based payments.  

We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer to join our team in VPDP Singapore!

Staff Software Engineer 

As a Staff Software Engineer you will help lead, design, enhance, build our solutions meant for customers in an agile, fast-paced environment. You will be working with colleagues across the company, who will help support and challenge you every day. Designing solutions, writing code, unit testing code, developing test cases, automating test cases and frequent check-ins for continuous integration is just part of your DNA. You will see your team’s code going to production in just a few weeks and used by strategic accounts worldwide. If this sounds exciting, we would love to chat and tell you more about our work culture, solutions and opportunities.

Our team, as well as our group works under the principles of a common engineering model with both development and testing expertise. You are expected to have hands-on experience and sufficient knowledge to guide the engineers and unblock them as needed on an on-going basis.

Your responsibilities will include:

•   Design and develop new systems as well as enhancements and fixing defects in existing software.

•   Help our clients achieve their business goals by understanding their requirements and delivering the best solution.

•   Lead meetings and discussions with product and architecture teams

•   Leverage newer technologies and lead efforts to architect, design and implement / test various aspects of secure payment solutions.

•   Lead and provide technical mentoring to a team of talented engineers and train them on DEV / QA best practices

•   Understand coding guidelines and participate in code review processes.

•   Review test strategy and test cases developed by test engineers to ensure optimum quality of solutions being delivered.

•   Periodically rotate into the role of Scrum Master to lead agile, scrum teams for a given sprint.

•   Excellent leadership, interpersonal skills along with a team player focus.

•   Develop close working relationships with members of teams within the organization.

•   Become knowledgeable of Visa's core technology, infrastructure and standards.

Your background will ideally include:

•   Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or other technology field; Typically, candidates are expected to have8+ years of experience working in a technology company on Java and related technologies. Experience in delivering enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products is a must-have.

We want our Staff Software Engineers to do much more than just write. You would be expected to bring in expertise that include:

•   Solid experience in technologies including JAVA, J2EE, REST, UI Frameworks, ORACLE, LINUX, KAFKA, HADOOP, etc.

•   Exposure to Spring Framework and Hibernate is a must have. Understanding the workings of an MVC Framework like Spring MVC, Struts, etc. would also be good to have.

•   Strong foundation in requirements scoping, data structures, algorithms, instrumenting and performance benchmarking, problem solving and complexity analysis.

•   Strong designing, analytical, programming & communication skills needed, along with aptitude for building stable solutions.

•    4-6 years demonstrated experience with n-tier web application development/testing is required. Experience in latest JDK and earlier releases is important. Must be able to articulate experience with many of the major Java APIS (e.g. JMS, JPA, JNDI, JAX, etc.); Technical certification a Plus.

•   Experience with web services standards and related technologies (XML, JSON, REST, SOAP, WS*, AXIS, JERSEY) is required.

•   High-level knowledge about various testing methodologies such as functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, penetration testing & performance testing is necessary.

•   Exposure to tools like JMeter, SoapUI, Postman / Any REST Client is desired.

•   Understanding of test automation using frameworks such as Selenium, etc. is good to have.

•   Experience with Front End Web Technology such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS is a plus.

•   Demonstrable experience utilizing object-oriented patterns and design best practices.

•   Experience working with a variety of Applications Servers and Databases (At least Tomcat / JBOSS, Oracle or equivalent).

•   Good understanding of multi-threaded concurrent programming is needed. Experience with non-blocking IO is an added Plus.

•   Experience integrating with asynchronous messaging systems such as MQ Series and Apace Kafka is a Plus. Hadoop knowledge is also good to have.

•   Familiarity with common application security vulnerabilities and how to overcome them (OWASP) is a Plus.

•   Hands on experience with Continuous Integration, and Test Driven Development is required.

Our engineers do more than just write and test code and we need managers for them to go beyond just supervising them:

•   We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions.

•   While you’ll have the skill to see and understand the big picture, you’re able to stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals.

•   You’re great at systematic and accurate research wanting to uncover the smallest detail.

•   You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together.

•   You have the passion to understand people and always strive harder to improve our products and services!

•   You have excellent interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.