Remote Senior Java/Spring Backend Engineer (APIs & Security)

Cognizant; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 69,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Senior Backend Developer (Java/Spring) to design, build, secure, and maintain enterprise Java services, APIs, batch processing, and data workflows for complex transfer agency and fixed income platforms.

You will collaborate with architects, analysts, QA, DevSecOps, and security teams to deliver reliable, testable, and scalable backend capabilities with FedRAMP High alignment.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of enterprise backend development experience.
• Strong expertise with Java 17 or later, Spring Boot, Spring Security, OAuth2, and REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle SQL, Hibernate, and stored procedures.
• Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub or Bitbucket, Swagger/OpenAPI, Azure-based deployment patterns, unit testing, and API testing.
• Proficiency with JasperReports, Quartz, SOAP, Apache CXF, JMeter, Dynatrace, Log4j, and secure SDLC practices.

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

Spring Boot

Spring Security

OAuth2

REST APIs

Tools

Oracle SQL

Hibernate

Jenkins

GitHub

Bitbucket

Swagger/OpenAPI

Azure

JUnit

API testing

Swagger/OpenAPI

JasperReports

Quartz

SOAP

Apache CXF

JMeter

Dynatrace

Log4j

Job description

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Senior Backend Developer (Java/Spring) to design, build, secure, and maintain enterprise Java services, APIs, batch processing, and data workflows for complex transfer agency and fixed income platforms.

You will collaborate with architects, analysts, QA, DevSecOps, and security teams to deliver reliable, testable, and scalable backend capabilities with FedRAMP High alignment.