About the Role
You will join a team that builds and runs payment connectivity services integrating a large-scale online payments platform with external payment service providers. You will own features end to end across backend services, serverless components, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD, and contribute to the customer-facing payment flows.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that integrate with payment service providers for payment initiation and status retrieval.
- Develop and support webhook and callback handlers that process asynchronous payment events reliably and securely.
- Implement secure data exchange, including payload encryption and decryption and managed secrets.
- Define and maintain well-documented APIs that follow internal standards and are validated through automated checks.
- Secure inbound and outbound traffic using API gateway, edge, and cloud security controls.
- Manage cloud infrastructure as code and deploy services on a serverless, container-based platform.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines covering testing, validation, release automation, and deployment.
- Support production through monitoring, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and payment status reconciliation.
- Contribute to platform and edge improvements and to technical documentation.
- Collaborate with platform teams and external provider contacts.
Required Skills
- Strong backend experience in Kotlin (or Java with a readiness to work in Kotlin) and a modern framework such as Micronaut or Spring Boot.
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (serverless compute, messaging, load balancing, security, secret management).
- Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and OpenAPI specifications, and working with API gateways.
- Solid understanding of webhook and callback patterns, idempotency, retries, and failure handling.
- Working knowledge of encryption and secure data exchange.
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions or an equivalent tool.
- Strong testing discipline (unit, integration, contract) and observability practices.
Nice to Have
- Experience in payments or fintech, including PSP integrations, reconciliation, and PCI-DSS awareness.
- Knowledge of CDN and edge security (WAF, routing, security rules).
- Frontend skills (TypeScript, React or similar) for payment, redirect, or status-handling flows and internal tooling.
- Familiarity with regional payment methods and regulatory guidelines.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, or Grafana.
Things to know before you apply
- Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Accommodations: 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.
- AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
- Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
- Language proficiency: We ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
- Inclusion: 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.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
