Staff SW Engineer (Production Support)

Tink; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payment technology company in Singapore is seeking a Staff Software Support Engineer to provide technical expertise for Risk application systems. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of relevant experience and strong troubleshooting skills. Responsibilities include providing 24x7 support for applications, diagnosing production issues, and developing automation solutions. This hybrid role allows for flexibility in working from the office and home.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible work environment

Health benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent education.
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure for application troubleshooting.
• Experience with production monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24x7 production support to Risk applications.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues.
• Develop automation solutions for support.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Problem analysis

Linux server

Database concepts

Software development lifecycle

Education

Bachelor's Degree in relevant field

Advanced degree (Masters, MBA, etc.)

Tools

MySQL

Kafka

Docker

Git

Jira

Job description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for talented, curious, and energetic Staff Software Support Engineers who possess strong leadership skills and strong interest in solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Staff Software Support Engineer, you will provide technical expertise support for the Risk application systems. The role expects the candidate to be a curious and self-motivated technical subject matter expert, provides technical troubleshooting skills for all support related challenges, and be accountable for the support delivery and operational excellence of multiple highly available application services.

The Work itself:

• Work in Risk application support team to provide world-class application support.
• Provide rotation basis 24x7 production support to all Risk suite of applications in the production environment.
• Diagnose and resolve problems in production to meet all service level agreements (SLAs), including possible joint analysis with cross region team
• Develop automation solutions for support automation, scripting needs
• Develop software install plans, define release schedule and content. Implement changes in the production environment. Take full responsibility of the change end-to-end, including plan, communication, engage, execution and follow-up with all required groups e.g. infrastructure, middleware, database etc.
• Develop, update, maintain Production monitoring solutions
• Work with the Cybersecurity team to ensure all security vulnerabilities are remediated within the required timeline.
• Partner with Developers, Test Engineering, Scrum Master / PM, as required.

• Provide strategic technical and functional knowledge to critical Tier 1 Risk application:
• Develop into subject matter expert for (at least one) of the critical Risk applications: Risk Message Processor (RMP), Issuer Fraud Detection (IFD)
• Participate in business project discussion & deployment planning
• Coaching and guiding team members in developing technical skills

Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Operational Support excellence. Design and deploy automated support solution based on AI, support automation and become a strong advocate for pro-active monitoring.

This is not a requirement that any single candidate fulfill all characteristics; for example, we have team members focused on building scalable systems who may not have prior payments technology or web application experience.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ 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, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Preferred degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or Engineering.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem analysis skills is a MUST.
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure in Linux server, Storage, Network, Databases for application troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of database concepts, MySQL and/or MSSQL and Cassandra.
• Experience with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc., production end-to-end monitoring tools exposure with SRE.
• Experience with Kafka, IBM MQ, and Spring etc., Middleware software.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline software deployment and automation tools, software build, regression, and defect tracking tools e.g. Git, Jira.
• 5+ years of experience in design and implementation, comfortable in scripting or languages, e.g. Java, C++, Python, Go.
• Experience in Kubernetes, containerization, e.g. Docker, will be added advantage.
• Prior software engineering experience, familiar with software development lifecycle phases, agile framework including SAFe, will be added advantage.
• Energetic individuals keen with AIOps, to modernize operation supports
• Flexible attitude, team player, highly driven individual, ready to work with multiple time zones cross-geographical teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication and attention to detail skills.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.