Sr. Sw Engineer

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**:
For Visa to deliver on the vision of the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere, the Operations & Infrastructure (O&I) group must provide best-in-class infrastructure services that are secure, scalable, continuously available, and run on software-defined infrastructures. The O&I group offers an exciting opportunity to work on latest technologies where the industry is going through major innovations.

This is an exciting opportunity to engineer and develop best in class Database as a Service (DBaaS) software. You will also have opportunity to enhance Open Source Database products. The role is part of Platform as a Service (PaaS) organization under O&I group. Your primary responsibilities will include

1. Design, develop and maintain software to manage provisioning, runtime and life-cycle of shared database platform, ensuring database reliability, availability, scalability, manageability and observability.

3. Build tools to report on status of operations and performance of DBaaS platform

4. Build automated tests and enable continuous delivery of the platform components

5. Collaborate with team members in design reviews, development, and code reviews

6. Create documentation and procedures for development, deployment, and maintenance

7. Deliver all assigned responsibilities in a timely manner and with a high level of quality.

8. Be a proactive team player and have a passion for delivering high-quality code.

9. Work with various Technology and Business counterparts to drive the continuous improvements of the platforms.

10. Optional: Enhance and support code of Open Source Database products

a. Enhance Open Source Database products as and when needed to meet Visa’s requirement

b. Troubleshoot and debug code issues as reported by Database Engineers/DBA’s and develop bug fix.

In addition, you will have opportunity to work with highly skilled Database Engineers and gain deeper understanding of multiple Relational and NoSQL database technologies and complete lifecycle management of databases.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

**Qualifications**:
Basic
- 4 years of software engineering and development experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters)

Preferred
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5-8 years of full-stack software development experience primarily with Java (v1.8+).
- Nice to have - Experience with GO, C, C++.
- Good experience with Java EE and Spring framework, Microservices, REST API’s
- Good experience with JavaScript frameworks Angular (v8+), Node.js.
- Any past experience developing DBaaS or Data Access Layer (DAL) is a plus.
- Any past experience of contribution to any Open Source DB product is a plus.
- Good understanding of one or more relational and NoSQL database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline and code versioning tools such as Git
- Nice to have - Knowledge of Database High Availability, Replication, Connection Pooling, Load balancing, DB Proxy.
- Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with mínimal supervision
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Work Hours: This position requires the incumbent to be available during core business hours.

Travel Requirements: This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 0-5% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, and reach with hands and arms.

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in Singapore are requi