Full Stack Engineer

Description

Full Stack Engineer

For progressive computer science and information technology-oriented graduates, this is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing and global organization with a passion for building stronger businesses for our clients. Cognizant Technology Solutions (www.cognizant.com, NASDAQ: CTSH) is a member of the S&P-500, Nasdaq-100, and was recently ranked as the #1 Fastest Growing "All Star" by Fortune Magazine. Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a seamless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.

Cognizant employs a DevOps culture which is pervasive in our execution. The competitive advantage this capability provides is enormous, enabling faster feature time to market, increased customer satisfaction, employee productivity, as well as allowing the organization to win in the marketplace. Why? Because technology has become the dominant value creation process and an increasingly important means of customer acquisition within most organizations. Deeply rooted in the principles of lean production and the Toyota Production System, Cognizant relentlessly works to improve, focusing on the value stream and reducing all other waste in the system.

Responsibilities • Use TDD to demonstrate functioning code that meets requirements • Work closely with other developers as part of a team or minimally, in a paired environment for 8 hours each day • Communicate and articulate technical vision while understanding business requirements • Deploy application 'bits' to AWS or other similar cloud environment • Strong understanding of programming patterns is important and required. The ideal candidate will know the Go programming language, but where this skill is lacking, a deep understanding of programming patterns and demonstrable knowledge of Java will suffice • Working knowledge of Spring, Java, and Bash. Experience with system administration, UNIX, process management, deployment technologies. • Candidates will be agile practitioners, having achieved proficiency in agile methodologies through years of experimentation and learning. A demonstration of more than just the basics is required to be successful. Candidates should demonstrate a deep experience of participating in standups/daily scrums, planning meetings, iteration retrospectives, etc. • Open source participation and knowledge is important. Cloud Foundry is an open source technology, and a strong understanding of what it means to work in open source is required.

Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, or related field • Enjoys working in a fast paced, collaborative environment • Values "team" and leverages the opinions and expertise of their teammates to deliver working, quality code • Knowledge of the cloud and deployment expectations and complexities. Developers should be capable of deploying application 'bits' to AWS or other similar cloud environment. • DevOps promotes the collapse of different functions into one; QA, IT, Dev, etc. As a result, each developer will have a working knowledge of Ruby, Linux OS commands and be equally comfortable at the command line as they are in the IDE. • Good foundational knowledge in a language such as Java will translate to Go when the syntax of the language is understood • Core Java, Spring Boot, Webservices, REST, Angular, NodeJS, ReactJS

Distinguishing Qualifications • Pair programming, Spring Cloud