Sr. Java API Lead; Java, boot, Microservices, MongoDB

Sr. Java API Lead (Java, Spring boot, Microservices, Mongo

DB)

Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Sr. Java API Lead with 10 + years of experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have expertise in JAVA, AWS, SQL, Spring Boot, Angular JS, JavaScript and MySQL. Experience in the Payer domain is mandatory. This is a hybrid work model with day shifts and no travel required.

Our engineers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it.

Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Our engineers’ culture and style:
At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights, and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital‑first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client‑centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

You must be legally authorized to work in the USA without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

• Identify and analyses user requirements.
• Prioritize, assign, and perform tasks throughout the software development life cycle.
• Maintenance and enhancement support, by providing technical support for existing applications.
• Monitoring & optimizing the application performance.
• Analyzing application logs to troubleshoot the issues.
• Participate in Architectural & design discussion.
• Create application based on micro service architecture & converting existing monolithic apps to micro services.
• Participate with upstream & downstream application for integration. Participate with team members and helping them on technical issues.
• Participate in team meeting with leads during different phases of software lifecycle like requirement gathering, stories grooming, planning, development, testing & deployment.
• Participate with clients regarding the blockers, challenges & risks.
• Participate in all agile ceremonies like daily standup call, refinement call, sprint demo, retrospective.

• At least 10+ years experience and proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices and design patterns.
• Proficiency in Mongo
  
  DB Database.
• Experience in deploying microservices in On-Prem or Azure with Jenkins and GIT.
• Experience with Kafka messages.
• Familiarity with React Js and integration.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Tokens.
• Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills.
• Experience in managing Offshore team.
• Knowledge in Agile Process.

The annual salary for this position is between $81,337- $ 140,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

• 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

The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast‑paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry‑recognized,…