Senior Java Full-Stack Architect — Cloud, AI & AWS

Cognizant; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long‑term/Short‑term Disability

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring a Lead Java Full Stack Developer to design, build, and scale API-first, cloud-native applications. You will work across product, design, data, and risk teams to deliver secure, scalable technology solutions in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead end-to-end development with Java/Spring Boot on the back end and React/TypeScript on the front end, leveraging AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and AI‑assisted tooling. On-site in New York City with strong growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years designing cloud-native services on AWS.
• Strong Java 11/17/21, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs experience.
• Full-stack capabilities with React/TypeScript/Java/ Spring Boot.
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, observability, security.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale cloud-native API-first applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Develop end-to-end capabilities across front-end and back-end stacks with React and Java.
• Deploy on AWS with Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless approaches.
• Integrate AI capabilities and maintain secure, reliable services.
• Establish strong engineering practices across CI/CD and observability.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

Java backend development

Full-stack development

React/TypeScript

AWS cloud engineering

API design and REST

CI/CD and IaC

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/EKS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kafka

OpenAPI

React

Node.js

Java

Job description

Cognizant is hiring a Lead Java Full Stack Developer to design, build, and scale API-first, cloud-native applications. You will work across product, design, data, and risk teams to deliver secure, scalable technology solutions in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead end-to-end development with Java/Spring Boot on the back end and React/TypeScript on the front end, leveraging AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and AI‑assisted tooling. On-site in New York City with strong growth opportunities.