Lead Java Engineer

3 weeks ago

Riverwoods, Illinois, United States Cognizant Full time

About Cognizant's Digital Engineering Practice:

At Cognizant Digital Engineering, a small cross functional team comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, UI/UX designers and Big Data analysts builds higher quality software faster siloed individuals working independently. Small, nimble engineering teams generate collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality deliverables. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies.

The Role:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Lead Java Engineer serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build cutting edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the "team", drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.

Location: Riverwoods, Illinois

Responsibilities:

· Proven experience in analyzing and optimizing Java-based microservices for performance and scalability.

· Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) for handling large volumes of structured and unstructured data.

· In-depth knowledge of techniques for optimizing applications to achieve low latency and high throughput.

· Experience in transitioning from monolithic architectures to microservices, focusing on modularity, scalability, and maintainability.

· Proficiency in using micro services design patterns for building scalable Java applications

· Experience with message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ for building scalable, event-driven architectures.

· Proficiency in containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) to deploy and manage distributed applications efficiently.

· Experience in implementing low latency and multi-threading techniques

· Insight into key areas for performance improvement in Java applications, such as garbage collection tuning, memory management, and efficient use of data structures.

· Knowledge of open-source tools to minimize costs while achieving high performance

· Experienced with design and development of low-latency platform

· Added advantage having experience of Trading platform, Digital E-wallet provisioning platform or Tokenization servicing platforms

· Strong experience with Core Java, Spring boot apps, Kubernetes, Kafka

· Experience with strong maintenance of Unit Tests and maintaining System resiliency and reliability validations

· Self-Starter and strong troubleshooting skills

· Able to resolve blockers and review existing code base to recommend vulnerabilities and resiliency remediations

· Drive End to End test strategy and implementation on code pipeline

· Able to resolve pipeline issues and ensure CI/CD of build / releases

· Core Java: Solid Foundation in Latest version of Java (17+), Java Memory Models, JVM Performance Tuning, concurrency). Knowing other functional language is a plus.

· Database: SQL (Postgres) / NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB)

· Caching: Familiarity with Redis or Similar

Nice To Have

· Event Streaming: Kafka/RabbitMQ

Required Skill:

  • Java Full Stack Engineer with 12-16 years of relevant experience
  • Strong Scrum background
  • Delivering superior Engineering outcomes.
  • Strong expertise in Core Java particularly in recent versions of JDK 17+ with special focus on performance Preferably in Banking / Payments industry experience
  • Java Full Stack Engineer (FSE) Resource with Strong expertise in Core Java, particularly with recent versions of JDK, ensuring up-to-date knowledge of Java 8 through the latest versions.
  • Experience with functional and reactive programming and framework such as Akka
  • Experience with Quarkus and vertx for developing high-performance, cloud-native Java applications with fast startup times and low memory footprint
  • Experience with gRPC for high-performance, cross-platform RPC (Remote Procedure Call) framework for efficient inter-service communication
  • Strong knowledge of serialization and deserialization payload formats such as Protocol Buffers, Avro

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.

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