Architect

Cognizant
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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 strong 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.
  • Mentor developers and drive adoption of backend best practices and standards.
  • Lead design discussions, API reviews, and technical roadmap planning.

What You Bring

  • 7–10+ years of backend development experience with leadership responsibilities.
  • Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Express/NestJS frameworks.
  • Deep knowledge of REST APIs, microservices architecture, and integration patterns.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, RDS).
  • Strong database experience with SQL (Oracle/SQL Server) and distributed data systems.
  • Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems (Kafka/SNS/SQS).
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices.
  • Familiarity with API Gateway (Kong preferred) and API lifecycle management.
  • Exposure to security best practices and DevSecOps workflows.
  • Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical capabilities.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have: Exposure to AI/LLM integrations, real-time processing

What We Offer You

  • Leadership role in building critical backend systems for digital banking platforms.
  • Opportunity to design large-scale distributed systems in a FinTech environment.
  • Collaborative and innovation-driven culture.
  • Access to continuous learning and career growth opportunities.

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