Full-time

Backend API Engineer / Data Engineer

Posted by Cognizant • mississauga, peel region, Canada

📍 mississauga, peel region 🕒 May 23, 2026

About the Role

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 platf...

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