Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cognizant is a digital company seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to design, build, and deliver scalable software solutions. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders and utilizing AI-assisted tools to enhance engineering productivity.
Responsibilities
- Translate ambiguous business challenges into clean, scalable, and secure software architectures while anticipating technical risks, edge cases, and long-term maintainability
- Own full-stack feature delivery across services, data, and user interfaces, making pragmatic technology decisions that balance speed, quality, and business value
- Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity while maintaining accountability for code quality, correctness, and security
- Build production-ready systems with strong testing, CI/CD practices, observability, alerting, runbooks, and recovery paths to support reliability and operational readiness
- Partner closely with product, business, security, compliance, risk, and platform stakeholders to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and deliver meaningful business outcomes
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, supporting, and deploying modern enterprise-grade software systems
- Hands-on full-stack engineering experience across services, data, APIs, and user interfaces
- Experience with technologies such as Python, Vue.js, AWS or Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, APIs, and cloud-native architecture patterns
- Demonstrated experience building reliable, secure, and maintainable systems using testing, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and production support practices
- Ability to work directly with business stakeholders, build trust, communicate technical concepts clearly, and operate with autonomy in fast-paced environments
- Experience using agentic AI tools to improve development workflows, accelerate prototyping, and strengthen engineering feedback loops
- Experience designing quality gates, specification-driven development workflows, automated checks, and engineering standards that improve team output
- Ability to rapidly prototype solutions with stakeholders to validate ideas and accelerate feedback
- Strong product intuition and business acumen, with the ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes
- Experience collaborating across security, risk, compliance, platform, product, and business teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions
Benefits
- 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.
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