Cognizant

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World's Best Employers 2025) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. 

This role is part of Cognizant IOA (Intuitive Operations and Automation) — and more specifically, a product team with its own origin story. We started as Matterway, a German startup building automation software from scratch. We were acquired by Cognizant, but we kept our team, our culture, our pace, and our way of working. We move like a startup, think like a startup, and now do it with the backing of a global company. 

We combine human expertise with intelligent automation, ML operations, and digital experience solutions to help technology and digital-native companies build smarter, more adaptive operating models. 

What's the opportunity? 

We are looking for Senior Product Engineers to join our team. We're a tight crew of 5 senior engineers, from different corners of the world. We're hiring 3 more people, and those people will shape what this team becomes. 

We're building a platform to support the agentification of our operations. You'll work across a suite of products including a cloud platform for process optimization, desktop application, browser extension, and specialized AI agents. 

This is genuinely frontier work: we don't follow AI trends, we implement them. New model drops on a Monday; we've prototyped with it by Wednesday. 

We believe this is the most exciting time to join. Be part of the founding R&D talent in this area and help set the technical bar for everything that comes next. 

What will you be doing? 

Your day-to-day responsibilities: 

• Design and evolve the core architecture of our platform 
• Set technical standards and take ownership of complex projects end-to-end 
• Work on a well-architected, fast-evolving TypeScript codebase using technologies such as React, Node.js, Electron, and GraphQL 
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to solve challenging technical and business problems, with real autonomy 
• Participate in the full development lifecycle: scoping, design, estimation, coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, maintenance, and support 
• Evaluate and implement proofs of concept using the latest AI tools and models 

You will know you're successful if: 

• You develop projects independently until they deliver their intended business value 
• You keep top-notch software quality standards about design, implementation, and documentation 
• You're the person who brings something new to the team's radar, a model, a technique, a tool, before anyone else has heard of it 

What makes you a great fit 

Must-haves: 

• Excellent English (C1+) with exceptional written and verbal communication 
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript across frontend and backend, including building and maintaining Node.js-based services 
• Experience in frontend development using modern frameworks such as Vue.js or React 
• Knowledge of any E2E testing framework such as Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Cypress 
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables 
• Strong technical fundamentals, genuine intellectual curiosity, and a drive to keep getting better 
• You follow AI closely, not just as a user but as someone who reads the papers, watches the releases, and has opinions. You're excited about where this is going and want to be building at the edge of it 

Nice-to-haves: 

• Familiarity with AI-coding tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, etc.) 
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP) and infra-as-code deployment 
• Having built or maintained CI/CD pipelines or workflows, especially GitHub actions 

Why join us? 

• Be at the cutting edge of AI agents and applying LLMs to real-world use cases, not in theory but in production 
• Work on hard problems with high agency: your ideas get heard; your decisions get shipped 
• Join a small but growing internationally distributed team. 
• giving you real influence over how it evolves 
• The resources of a global company with the speed and culture of a startup 
• Remote-first set-up, with the option to work from one of our 13 locations in India: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida, Kolkata, Kochi, Coimbatore, Bhubaneswar, Mangalore, and Indore 
• Flexible working hours 
• Collaborative, pragmatic engineering culture focused on outcomes 
• Fast-growing team within Cognizant, with access to global resources and real career opportunities 

This is a Contract Based role only

Not a "Fulltime opportunity"

Role Summary:

The Robotics Process Automation Senior Developer is responsible for designing and coding the automation process components. The RPA Senior developer develops the automation design to ensure it meets the specifications. The design must handle concurrency, scalability, restart and recovery, auditing & object reuse for all the automations that are designed and developed. The senor developer will also validate the automation by performing appropriate unit testing, and ensure configuration control is maintained at all times. The senior developer mentors junior developers and performs QC checks on code components developed by them.

DUTIES / ACCOUNTABILITIES

Responsibilities include, but may not be restricted to:

• Design technical specifications for RPA that meets the requirements and handled all the non functional requirements of concurrency, scalability, security requirements, restart and recovery.
• Develops and configures automation processes as per the technical design document to meet the defined requirements. Works on the coding the more complicated automations or reusable components, and delegates and mentors junior developers for the less complex components.
• Develops new processes/tasks/objects using core workflow principles that are efficient, well structured, maintainable and easy to understand.
• Complies with and helps to enforce design and coding standards, policies and procedures.
• Ensures documentation is well maintained.
• Ensures quality of coded components by performing thorough unit testing.
• Works collaboratively with test teams during the Product test and UAT phases to fix assigned bugs with quality.
• Reports status, issues and risks to tech leads on a regular basis
• Improves skills in automation products by completing automation certification.
• Mentors junior developers and performs code reviews for quality control.

Qualifications

EDUCATION

• Bachelor university degree in Engineering/Computer Science.

KEY SKILLS

•  5- 8 years of IT experience and having good understanding of programming concepts.  Should be from a programming background on any coding language (.Net, Java).
• Working experience in RPA for a minimum of 2 years and having project experience of a minimum 3 RPA implementations.
• Understands development methodology and lifecycle
• Should be trained on RPA tools (Blue Prism/Automation Anywhere).
• Self-motivated, team player, action and results oriented.
• Well organized, good communication and reporting skills.

Desirable:

• Prior experience in UI automation, Robotics process automation is an added advantage.
• Certification in Robotics