Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) - Architecture Leader

Cognizant; Texas City (TX); Remote; USD 81,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

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 Engineer to shape the architecture and delivery of scalable backend services that support reporting, data access, and data export. You will work across product, QA, and partner teams to ensure secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

You will own the technical roadmap, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while ensuring high code quality and robust security across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring or another modern backend language and framework.
• Ownership of architecture across multiple services, including REST API design and security considerations.
• Relational database expertise covering schema design, migrations, and performance.
• Experience with cloud platforms and containerization including 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 work.
• Partner with product, quality assurance, engineering teams, and vendors on scope, sequencing, dependencies, platform evaluations, and architecture decisions while mentoring engineers.

Skills

Technical leadership

Team collaboration

Tools

Java

Spring

REST API design

Authentication & Authorization

Distributed systems

Google Cloud Platform

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to shape the architecture and delivery of scalable backend services that support reporting, data access, and data export. You will work across product, QA, and partner teams to ensure secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

You will own the technical roadmap, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while ensuring high code quality and robust security across distributed systems.