Senior Software Engineer

Cognizant

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Work type: Remote
Location: Portsmouth, NH
Posted: 22 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 10 roles within 25 mi

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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

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JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join a cross-functional team to design, develop, and enhance modern full stack applications. You will translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing technical solutions while driving CI/CD automation, code quality initiatives, and performance optimization. Your daily responsibilities include participating in architectural discussions, performing code reviews, and troubleshooting application issues to ensure reliability and maintainability. You must possess extensive professional experience using JavaScript and TypeScript to build cloud-native applications on AWS. The role requires hands-on experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines and Git for version control. You will work within an Agile environment to solve complex technical problems, focusing on software security best practices and the implementation of distributed architectures or microservices.

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Skills

JavaScript TypeScript AWS GitHub Actions Git GitHub CI/CD Agile Microservices Cloud-native

What you'll do

Develop and enhance full stack applications using JavaScript and TypeScript.
Translate business requirements into scalable system designs and technical solutions.
Drive CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions and other DevOps tools.
Implement software security best practices and performance optimization efforts.
Troubleshoot and resolve application issues to ensure reliability and maintainability.
Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions to improve engineering standards.
Maintain and manage cloud-native applications on AWS.

What we're looking for

Extensive professional experience developing full stack applications using JavaScript and TypeScript is required.
Experience developing and maintaining cloud-native applications on AWS is required.
Hands-on experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions is required.
Strong experience with Git/GitHub and modern version control practices is required.
Experience working in Agile development environments and translating business requirements into technical designs is required.
Experience designing scalable cloud-native applications on AWS (preferred).
Experience with microservices, distributed architectures, and automated testing strategies (preferred).

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