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Job Summary

Candidates will need to have experience with medium-to-large-scale web development.

Ability to develop within full technology stack

Be part of a fast moving team working with the latest tools and open source technologies

Design and develop our next generation of RESTful APIs and Event driven services in a distributed environment

Use advanced distributed technologies to process store and quickly retrieve huge volumes of data

Work on a development team using agile methodologies


Responsibilities

Primary Skills

10+ years of work experience in application engineering

Experience with scripting languages such as JavaScript Typescript

Experience with development in Nodejs environment

Web application development experience with compiled languages such as Java

Solid understanding of OOP Design Patterns Data Structures and Web Standards

Understanding of JavaScript HTML and CSS

Strong understanding of parallel processing concurrency and asynchronous concepts

Strong experience with Event Driven Architecture (preferred)

Experience with developing RESTful web services

Strong experience with enterprise level N-tier web applications

Experienced with NoSql Databases - DynamoDb MongoDB Cassandra

Experience in writing native SQL queries

Strong experience with cloud infrastructure AWS (preferred)

Experience with Application Monitoring Tools (Splunk Cloudwatch Dynatrace etc)

Experience with enterprise security Including IAM Roles & Policies Auth0/Okta Encryption API Gateways Firewalls Private Cloud)

Experience with Continuous Integration/Deployments (Jenkins/Terraform/Git Lab Runners)

Nice to Haves

Experience with React (preferred) React Native (preferred) Angular 2+

Experience in SSO (SAML OPENID)

Knowledge of search solutions such as Lucene Solr or ElasticSearch

Experience in architecting and designing distributed systems that are highly available and security focused

Experience with designing event-based systems

Experience with single-page applications

 

 

What we offer

  • The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
  • Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
  • The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
  • A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and pension plan with matching contributions.
  • Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
  • True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.  

About us
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

Other employment-related information
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.

While our system allows applications in all languages, job required language(s) and proficiency level(s) vary. However, basic English proficiency is required for Company-wide communications purposes. Further, for roles located in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required to communicate with our global clients. 

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