Senior Java/Spring Backend Engineer — Remote, FedRAMP-Ready

Cognizant; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 69,000 - 114,000; 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 is seeking a Sr. Backend Developer (Java/Spring) to design, build, secure, and maintain enterprise Java services and APIs for transfer agency and fixed income processing platforms.

You will collaborate with architects, QA, DevSecOps, and security teams to deliver reliable backend capabilities. Eight+ years of enterprise backend experience, strong Java/Spring expertise, and FedRAMP-aligned secure SDLC practices are required.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of enterprise backend development experience.
• Strong expertise with Java 17 or later, Spring Boot, Spring Security, OAuth2, and REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle SQL, Hibernate, and stored procedures.
• Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub or Bitbucket, Swagger/OpenAPI, Azure-based deployment patterns, unit testing, and API testing.
• Proficiency with JasperReports, Quartz, SOAP, Apache CXF, JMeter, Dynatrace, Log4j, and secure SDLC practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop Java and Spring-based services supporting transfer registration, shareholder and account records, fixed income events, income and principal processing, corporate action workflows, reporting, and reconciliation support.
• Design and maintain REST APIs, service orchestration, batch and scheduled processing, database interactions, data validation, exception handling, and audit logging.
• Implement secure authentication, authorization, input validation, secrets handling, encryption-aware integrations, and vulnerability remediation aligned with FedRAMP High expectations.
• Ensure transactional integrity, regulatory auditability, and resilient service design across high-volume processing workflows.
• Partner with architects, analysts, QA, DevSecOps, and security teams to deliver reliable, testable, and supportable backend capabilities.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

Spring Security

OAuth2

REST APIs

Oracle SQL

Hibernate

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub

Bitbucket

Swagger/OpenAPI

Azure deployments

Unit testing

API testing

JasperReports

Quartz

SOAP

Apache CXF

JMeter

Dynatrace

Log4j

Secure SDLC

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Bitbucket

Swagger/OpenAPI

Azure

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Sr. Backend Developer (Java/Spring) to design, build, secure, and maintain enterprise Java services and APIs for transfer agency and fixed income processing platforms.

You will collaborate with architects, QA, DevSecOps, and security teams to deliver reliable backend capabilities. Eight+ years of enterprise backend experience, strong Java/Spring expertise, and FedRAMP-aligned secure SDLC practices are required.