Senior Backend Engineer | Remote | Java & Cloud Architecture

Cognizant; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 68,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The role emphasizes ownership of architecture across multiple services, hands-on coding, and strong Java/Spring expertise, with cloud experience (GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.

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.
• Ownership of architecture across multiple services, including REST API design and authentication patterns.
• Strong relational database design, migrations, query performance, and data modeling.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud, 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

7+ years exp

Java/Spring

Architecture ownership

REST API design

Relational databases

Cloud platforms (GCP)

CI/CD / Containerization

Tools

REST API security

Job description

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

The role emphasizes ownership of architecture across multiple services, hands-on coding, and strong Java/Spring expertise, with cloud experience (GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.