Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, Java & Cloud

Cognizant; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 81,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

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 for a remote role based in the United States, including Hawaii, with responsibilities spanning architecture, delivery, and governance of scalable backend services. You will collaborate with product and QA teams to deliver reliable data access, reporting, and export capabilities.

The role emphasizes owning the backend architecture, enforcing coding standards, and mentoring engineers while delivering high-impact, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating production backend systems (leadership or formal/informal).
• Strong hands-on Java and Spring or another modern backend language/framework.
• Ownership of architecture across multiple services, REST API design, security tradeoffs.
• Relational database design, migrations, query performance, and data modeling.
• Experience with cloud platforms (prefer Google Cloud), containers, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for backend services supporting reporting, data access, and export.
• Drive architectural decisions across interdependent services and data sources with delivery focus and health.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, API design, security, observability, and debt management.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into executable technical plans, review designs and code, and contribute hands-on work for high-risk tasks.
• Mentor engineers, collaborate with product, QA, and partner teams on scope, sequencing, and platform evaluations.

Skills

Back-end experience

Java & Spring

Architecture ownership

Relational databases

Cloud & CI/CD (GCP)

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for a remote role based in the United States, including Hawaii, with responsibilities spanning architecture, delivery, and governance of scalable backend services. You will collaborate with product and QA teams to deliver reliable data access, reporting, and export capabilities.

The role emphasizes owning the backend architecture, enforcing coding standards, and mentoring engineers while delivering high-impact, secure solutions.