Senior Backend Engineer — Java/Spring, Remote

Cognizant; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 68,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to shape scalable services for reporting, data access, and export. You’ll own architecture across multiple backend services, drive reviews, and contribute hands-on code.

This is a remote role in the United States with Cognizant’s standard benefits. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in backend systems, deep Java/Spring expertise, cloud experience (GCP), and a strong focus on security, reliability, and performance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring or another modern backend language and framework.
• Proven ownership of architecture across multiple services, including REST API design, authentication/authorization patterns, and distributed-system security tradeoffs.
• Strong relational database expertise covering schema design, migrations, query performance, and system-level data design.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform, plus containerization and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for backend services supporting reporting, data access, scheduled processing, and export or delivery capabilities.
• Drive and document architectural decisions across interdependent services and data sources while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term technical health.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, API design, security, observability, and technical debt management.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into executable technical plans, 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 while mentoring engineers and strengthening technical judgment across the team.

Skills

Backend leadership

Java

Spring framework

Distributed systems

Database design

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to shape scalable services for reporting, data access, and export. You’ll own architecture across multiple backend services, drive reviews, and contribute hands-on code.

This is a remote role in the United States with Cognizant’s standard benefits. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in backend systems, deep Java/Spring expertise, cloud experience (GCP), and a strong focus on security, reliability, and performance.