Senior Java Microservices Engineer – Cloud-Native

Cognizant

Sunnyvale (CA)

On-site

USD 113,000 - 133,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays and PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Full Stack Java Developer to design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices. You will work on cloud-native solutions across Azure and other platforms, focusing on scalable, secure systems and reliable integrations.

The role requires strong experience with distributed systems, API development, testing, observability, and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

5-7 years of enterprise software development experience.
Strong proficiency in Java 8/11/17 and the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, and Spring Data.
Extensive experience designing and developing Microservices-based architectures and RESTful APIs.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, API gateway patterns, service discovery, resiliency patterns, and event-driven architecture.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
Knowledge of messaging and streaming technologies including Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, or Azure Event Hub.
Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cosmos DB.
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar DevOps platforms.
Experience implementing automated testing using JUnit, Mockito, API testing tools, and software quality frameworks.
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or Azure Application Insights.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and Microservices architecture.
Build scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services supporting business-critical and high-volume transaction processing systems.
Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging Azure and other cloud platforms for compute, storage, networking, monitoring, and security services.
Design and implement distributed systems, service integration patterns, and event-driven architectures to ensure availability, resiliency, and scalability.
Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and asynchronous integrations using technologies such as Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, or Azure Event Hub.
Apply object-oriented design principles, software design patterns, and clean coding standards to build maintainable and extensible applications.
Implement automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing to ensure software quality and reliability.
Optimize application performance through code tuning, caching strategies, database optimization, and resource management.
Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and engineering governance activities.
Implement observability and monitoring capabilities using logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and APM tools.
Support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to enable reliable releases and automated deployments.
Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement proactive improvements to enhance system stability and operational excellence.