1 day ago
Texas City, TX, USASenior
Base Salary
$81k - $141k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical roadmap for backend services supporting reporting, data access, scheduled processing, and data export or delivery.
- Drive and document architectural decisions across interdependent services and data sources.
- Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, API design, security, observability, and technical debt management.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into executable technical plans and review designs and code.
- Resolve complex engineering challenges and contribute hands-on code for high-risk or high-ambiguity work.
- Partner with product, quality assurance, engineering teams, and vendors on scope, sequencing, dependencies, platform evaluations, and architecture decisions.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen technical judgment across the team.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems, including formal or informal technical leadership.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring or another modern backend language and framework.
- Experience designing scalable distributed applications and owning architecture across multiple services.
- Experience with API and service contract design, authentication and authorization patterns, and distributed-system security tradeoffs.
- Strong relational database expertise including schema design, migrations, query performance, and system-level data design.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform, plus containerization and continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
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.
- Remote position; some roles may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations depending on project or client needs.
- Applications accepted until 11/10/2026, though the posting may close earlier if enough qualified applications are received.
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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.