Full Stack Engineer

Description:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Full-stack Engineer to serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build cutting-edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the “team”, drives continuous improvement, and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.

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

Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.

Location: Sunnyvale, California

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and develop UI-based tools

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering/product/program managers/leads, architects, and business stakeholders

• Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor of Computer Science and 6+ years' experience in software engineering

Qualifications

• Extensive working experience in developing complex web applications using Typescript (min 3 years).

• Thorough understanding of React.JS framework.

• Expertise in HTML5, CSS3, JSX, ES6 and other tools related to Front End Development

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs integration.

• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, Azure DevOps, etc.,

• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with the ability to work independently

• Ability to thrive in a fluid and fast-paced environment

• Understanding of web and application security is a plus

Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest or Jasmine, React testing lib

• Proven ability to author clean, standards-compliant, high-performance code

Collaborate with a team of full stack and front-end developers to design/architect, develop, and maintain progressive web-based applications

• Collaborate with UX/UI Designers to iterate on the design and implementation of the product

• Interact with Product and Engineering teams and actively participate in feature/functionality design and provide valuable feedback.

• Conduct performance tuning, testing, refactoring, usability, and automation