Remote Senior Java/Spring Backend Engineer

Cognizant; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 69,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, secure, and maintain enterprise Java services, APIs, and processing components for transfer agency and fixed income platforms. You will collaborate with architects, analysts, QA, DevSecOps, and security teams to deliver reliable backend capabilities, with a focus on FedRAMP High security and high-volume processing.

The role is remote within the United States, with flexible work arrangements and strong emphasis on security and

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of enterprise backend development experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop Java and Spring-based services supporting transfer registration, shareholder and account records, fixed income events, income and principal processing, corporate action workflows, reporting, and reconciliation support.
• Design and maintain REST APIs, service orchestration, batch and scheduled processing, database interactions, data validation, exception handling, and audit logging.
• Implement secure authentication, authorization, input validation, secrets handling, encryption-aware integrations, and vulnerability remediation aligned with FedRAMP High expectations.
• Ensure transactional integrity, regulatory auditability, and resilient service design across high-volume processing workflows.
• Partner with architects, analysts, QA, DevSecOps, and security teams to deliver reliable, testable, and supportable backend capabilities.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

Spring Security

OAuth2

REST APIs

Oracle SQL

Hibernate

CI/CD

Swagger/OpenAPI

Azure deployment

Unit testing

API testing

Security best practices

FedRAMP High familiarity

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Bitbucket

Swagger/OpenAPI tooling

JasperReports

Quartz

SOAP

Apache CXF

JMeter

Dynatrace

Log4j

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, secure, and maintain enterprise Java services, APIs, and processing components for transfer agency and fixed income platforms. You will collaborate with architects, analysts, QA, DevSecOps, and security teams to deliver reliable backend capabilities, with a focus on FedRAMP High security and high-volume processing.

The role is remote within the United States, with flexible work arrangements and strong emphasis on security and