Lead Java Full stack Engineer

Cognizant Digital Practice helps clients reinvent products, experiences, and business models to build new value, differentiation, and drive revenue in the digital economy. We take an Experience centered approach which uses human insights to take ideas from vision to outcome and building end to end experience led solutions that enables brands to transform their customer and employee experiences using design, marketing, and commerce capabilities.

Location: Riverwood, Illinois (Hybrid)

*Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in US*

Competent and Proficient Engineer with React and Microservices - API / Event Driven Arch with OCP / Postgres Kubernetes exp

Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production.

Tends to novices by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, advises the work of advanced beginners, and helps them continue to grow.

Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed interpersonal skills.

Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.

Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures.

Minimum 8 years of experience as Java FSE

Experience working with the cloud platforms like Pivotal Cloud Foundry /Openshift Container Platform and cloud related technologies

Application development experience in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices and REST API stack

Experience in UI Frameworks like REACT and developing front end screens from scratch

Experience in Relation Databases like Oracle and ORM frameworks

Spring Security and Spring Batch

Working experience in front end technologies. React JS Knowledge is must.

Experience with Spring, Containerization, DevOps and CI/CD

Drive TDD and ability to design Unit, Integration, Functional and Non Functional Tests (Reliability, Performance & Cyber security).

Strong fundamentals in Java, API first design.

Understanding of modern architecture and design patterns, including Microservices.

Database experience in Oracle, PostgresSQL, etc.

Cloud experience (i.e., AWS).

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• 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

Disclaimer: 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.

Why Choose Cognizant?

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, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skills fresh and have opportunities to obtain certifications on the latest technologies.

If you're comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!