Senior Java Backend Lead - Cloud, Kafka & Kubernetes

Cognizant; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Java Backend Lead to design and deliver scalable cloud-based backend applications and analytics solutions. You will provide hands-on technical leadership across the full software lifecycle.

You will collaborate with program managers, technical leads, developers, and client stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable technology solutions. This role emphasizes leadership, testing, deployment, and observability.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software development experience with Java and Spring stack.
• Hands-on design and development of Java backend services.
• Experience with messaging systems like Kafka or similar.
• Architecting for large-scale/high-volume environments.
• Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation.
• Kubernetes or similar container orchestration.
• Agile Scrum collaboration with stakeholders.
• Proven mentoring and technical leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable backend apps and analytics solutions deployed on cloud platforms.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the SDLC.
• Translate business requirements into reliable technology solutions with stakeholders.
• Lead testing, release, and deployment of features to production.
• Provide guidance on specifications and solution design.
• Establish monitoring, observability, and documentation.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

Spring Data JPA

Kafka

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Agile Scrum

Mentoring

Tools

Apache Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Cognizant in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Java Backend Lead to design and deliver scalable cloud-based backend applications and analytics solutions. You will provide hands-on technical leadership across the full software lifecycle.

You will collaborate with program managers, technical leads, developers, and client stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable technology solutions. This role emphasizes leadership, testing, deployment, and observability.