14 hours ago
Base Salary
$113k - $133k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
- Build scalable, secure, high-performance backend services for business-critical and high-volume transaction processing systems.
- Develop cloud-native solutions using Azure and other cloud platforms for compute, storage, networking, monitoring, and security services.
- Design distributed systems, service integrations, resiliency patterns, and event-driven architectures.
- Develop RESTful APIs and asynchronous integrations using Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, or Azure Event Hub.
- Apply object-oriented design principles, software design patterns, and clean coding standards.
- Implement automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Optimize application performance through code tuning, caching, database optimization, and resource management.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and engineering governance.
- Implement observability and monitoring with logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and APM tools.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, reliable releases, and automated deployments.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve system stability.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of enterprise software development experience with strong hands-on Java application development expertise.
- Strong proficiency in Java and the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, and Spring Data.
- Extensive experience with microservices architectures and RESTful APIs.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, API gateway patterns, service discovery, resiliency patterns, and event-driven architecture.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Knowledge of Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, or Azure Event Hub.
- Experience with SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cosmos DB.
- Strong understanding of Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar DevOps platforms.
- Experience with automated testing using JUnit, Mockito, API testing tools, and software quality frameworks.
- Familiarity with Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or Azure Application Insights.
- Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, secure coding, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- 401(k) plan and contributions.
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, subject to applicable plan terms.
- Applications are accepted until 12 Oct 2026.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGitGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsJUnitKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBOpenShiftPostgreSQLPrometheusRabbitMQSplunkSpring Boot
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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.