14 Oct
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Cognizant
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Noida
About The Team
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Backend Senior Software Engineer (Node.js / API) to join the Digital Business Banking team. This team is responsible for building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services supporting payments, onboarding, and money movement workflows.
As an Engineer, you will drive API strategy, and ensure delivery of robust, cloud-native microservices aligned with enterprise banking platforms.
What You Will Be Doing
Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Own the end-to-end backend design, and implementation of scalable API-driven systems.
• Lead development using Node.js, TypeScript, and microservices architecture.
• Define standards for API design, service communication, data flow, event-driven patterns, and security.
• Evaluate modern tools and technologies to enhance system scalability, resilience, and observability.
Core Engineering & Delivery
• Design and build RESTful APIs, backend services, and event-driven applications.
• Develop and maintain microservices hosted on AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, SQS/SNS).
• Ensure high performance, scalability, and fault tolerance across distributed systems.
• Guide implementation of API Gateway (Kong preferred), service mesh, and integration frameworks.
Problem Solving & Technical Ownership
• Translate business and domain requirements into scalable backend solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across services, integrations, and cloud environments.
• Optimize application performance, latency, memory usage, and data processing efficiency.
Quality, Testing & Governance
• Implement robust backend testing practices including unit, integration, and contract testing.
• Drive code quality using static code analysis, security scanning (DevSecOps), and best practices.
• Introduce governance for observability, logging, monitoring, and CI/CD automation.
Collaboration & Mentoring
• Work with Product, Frontend, QA, Cloud, Security, and Architecture teams.
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