Backend API Engineer / Data Engineer

Cognizant

Full-time Other-General
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Location
mississauga, on, Canada
Posted
June 01, 2026

Job Description

Backend API Engineer / Data Engineer About the role As a Backend API Engineer / Data Engineer, you will make an impact by designing and building scalable, event-driven backend services that power enterprise-grade data integration platforms. You will be a valued member of the engineering team and collaborate closely with application, platform, and integration teams to enable seamless data orchestration, validation, and routing across systems.

In this role, you will:

Design and develop internal RESTful and event-driven APIs to support enterprise data processing workflows

Build backend services to validate, transform, and enrich incoming data while orchestrating routing across systems

Develop file-based ingestion pipelines, including parsing complex files, splitting records, and distributing workloads to downstream systems

Implement scalable, asynchronous processing using Kafka or similar event streaming platforms

Integrate backend ser...