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Sr. Java API Lead (Java, Spring boot, Microservices, MongoDB)

Cognizant
Minneapolis, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 12/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/12/2026
Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Sr. Java API Lead with 10 years of experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have expertise in JAVA, AWS, SQL, Spring Boot, Angular JS, JavaScript and MySQL. Experience in the Payer domain is mandatory. This is a hybrid work model with day shifts and no travel required.

  • Our engineers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Cognizant Digital Engineering If you’re like us, you’ve got big ideas. At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights, and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

Location: Minneapolis, MN (Onsite)

You must be legally authorized to work in the USA without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Roles/Responsibilities

  • Identify and analyses user requirements.
  • Prioritize, assign, and perform tasks throughout the software development life cycle.
  • Maintenance and enhancement support, by providing technical support for existing applications.
  • Monitoring & optimizing the application performance.
  • Analyzing application logs to troubleshoot the issues.
  • Participate in Architectural & design discussion.
  • Create application based on micro service architecture & converting existing monolithic apps to micro services
  • Participate with upstream & downstream application for integration. Participate with team members and helping them on technical issues.
  • Participate in team meeting with leads during different phases of software lifecycle like requirement gathering, stories grooming, planning, development, testing & deployment.
  • Participate with clients regarding the blockers, challenges & risks.
  • Participate in all agile ceremonies like daily standup call, refinement call, sprint demo, retrospective.

Required Qualifications

  • At least 10 years experience and proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices and design patterns.
  • Proficiency in MongoDB Database
  • Experience in deploying microservices in On-Prem or Azure with Jenkins and GIT.
  • Experience with Kafka messages.
  • Familiarity with ReactJs and integration
  • Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Tokens
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
  • Experience in managing Offshore team
  • Knowledge in Agile Process.

Salary And Other Compensation

The annual salary for this position is between $81,337- $ 140,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

  • 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

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

About Cognizant Digital Engineering

Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy—and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.

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