Backend Architect

Role & Responsibilities

work with peers in Product, QA, and other Engineering departments;

coach and mentor team members;

cautiously drive adoption of new technologies and processes;

preserve our engineering values of quality, scalability, and maintainability;

“see around corners” — identify blind spots and prioritize work across teams;

work with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery; and

own the overall architecture and systems engineering for your products.

Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer – Java, AI & Automation

Experience : 4+ Years

Location : Any Cognizant location (India)

Work Mode : Hybrid

Interview Rounds :

1. Virtual
2. Face-to-Face (In-person)

Job Description :

Join our Backend Engineering team to design and maintain services on the Intuit Data Exchange (IDX) platform.

You'll work on scalable backend systems powering millions of daily transactions across Intuit products.

Key Qualifications :

• 4+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong in Java, Spring framework.
• Experience with microservices, databases, and web applications.
• Proficient in AWS and cloud-based systems.
• Exposure to AI and automation tools (Workato preferred).
• Python development experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• Comfortable with occasional US shift overlap.

Job Description

We are hiring full-stack developers for luxury-commerce platform that is well-funded and is now ready for its next level of growth. It is backed by reputed investors and is already a leader in its space. The focus for the coming years will be heavily on scaling the platform through technology.  Market-driven competitive salary for the right candidate

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work with the Business Teams & Product Managers, understand the requirements and design the technical architecture and implement it
• Build the code independently according to the technical specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards
• Create a technical design from Functional Design Doc / Requirements Doc and be able to troubleshoot with debugging skills
• Own product and its features from conception to delivery.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Node JS, and React JS.
• Hands on experience in developing customer facing Node JS based applications is a must.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with datastores such as MySQL, Oracle, Redis, and Solr/Elasticsearch.
• Knowledge of logging frameworks such as fluentd, logstash etc.
• Knowledge of Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes etc.) will be an advantage
• Writing and utilizing RESTful API services and performance tuning web applications
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure etc.
• Passion for building & scaling consumer-facing products.
• Attention to detail, good communication and organizational skills

Job Responsibilities:

• Working in web based applications and services.

• Collaborating closely with the Project Manager ensuring smooth development workflow and timely delivery. 

• Being quick and proactive in resolving application defects and issues.

•  Developing documents, queries etc. for databases.

• Always being ready to make required changes especially at the post-deployment stage.

• Multitasking with multiple projects and designs under stringent budget restrictions.

Candidate Requirements:

• Must have provable proficiency in Golang, MongoDB/SQL Server/MySQL, Web Service/REST API/WCF, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript/JQuery

• 2+ years of relevant experience in Golang Web Application.

• Must be familiar with Golang Programming Language, MongoDB/SQL Server.

• Well-experienced and knowledgeable in Go routine and channel patterns, Go web frameworks, AngularJs/VueJs/ReactJs, and RESTful Web Services/ Web API.

• Must understand code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial.

• The candidate must be self-driven, smart, and self-motivated with good communication skills.

• A go-getter and sales enthusiast who takes all the monthly, quarterly, and yearly sales goals seriously.

• Must have updated knowledge of IT services and industry.

• Should work closely with Business heads and help them with data and reports regarding the customers and their competitors.

• 5-7+ years of commercial Java development experience
• Experience with well known Open Source frameworks/libraries, like Spring Boot
• Work experience with Docker
• Microservice experience
• Experience with AWS like ECS, Lambda, SQS, RDS, Kinesis streams
• Familiar with iterative development
• Upper-intermediate level of English
• Solid understanding of communication and network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP).
• At ease with Unix/Linux
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills
• Familiar with both SQL and noSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, Memcached, Redis)
• Practical experience with scaling applications to big user numbers is a plus
• Experience with other programming languages is a plus.