Senior Backend Engineer — Remote (Java/Spring)

Cognizant; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 68,000 - 114,000; 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

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

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. This is a remote role in the United States.

You will own technical roadmaps, drive architectural decisions, enforce coding standards, and mentor engineers while partnering with product, QA, and vendor teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems, including demonstrated formal or informal technical leadership.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring or another modern backend language and framework, along with scalable distributed application design.
• Proven ownership of architecture across multiple services, including REST API and service contract design, authentication and 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 continuous integration and delivery 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

Java

Spring

Distributed systems design

Technical leadership

REST API design

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

CI/CD pipelines

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. This is a remote role in the United States.

You will own technical roadmaps, drive architectural decisions, enforce coding standards, and mentor engineers while partnering with product, QA, and vendor teams.