Job Description

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ100 and one of Forbes World's Best Employers 2025) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.

This role is part of Cognizant IOA (Intelligent Operations and Automation), the division leading the transformation from traditional BPO to AI-powered operations. We combine human expertise with intelligent automation, ML operations, and digital experience solutions to help technology and digitalnative companies build smarter, more adaptive operating models.

What's The Opportunity

We are looking for Senior Product Engineers to join our fastgrowing team. Our team is building a platform to support the identification of our operations. You will work across multiple products in our suite (e.g., a cloud platform for process optimization, AI coding agents & specialized AI agents, etc.).
Speed is something we fight for every day, so we move extremely quickly, adapting to new AI advancements in a matter of days.
We develop products and write frameworklevel code that other engineers & business users use daily.
We believe this is the most exciting time to join—be the founding R&D talent in this area.

What will you be doing — Your daytoday responsibilities

Design and evolve the core architecture of our platform.
Set technical standards and take ownership of complex projects.
Work on a wellarchitected, fastevolving TypeScript codebase using technologies such as Webpack, React, Node.js, Electron, and GraphQL.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to solve challenging technical and business problems.
Participate in the full development lifecycle: scoping, design, estimation, coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, maintenance, and support.
Evaluate and implement proofs of concept using the latest AI tools and models.

You Will Know You're Successful If

You develop projects independently until they deliver their intended business value.
You keep topnotch software quality standards regarding design, implementation, and documentation.

What Makes You a Great Fit — Musthaves

Excellent English (C1+) with exceptional written and verbal communication.
Strong proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript across frontend and backend, including building and maintaining Node.jsbased services.
Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables.
You take pride in having strong technical fundamentals; you love learning and are willing to work hard to invest in your development.
Excited about progress in the AI space.
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Nicetohaves

Experience in frontend development using JavaScript and modern frameworks such as Vue.js or React.
Experience with Puppeteer or Playwright.
Familiarity with AIcoding tooling (claude code, cursor, opencode, etc.).

Why join us

Be at the cutting edge of AI agents & applying LLMs to realworld use cases.
Work on hard problems in a highagency environment.
Join a diverse and internationally distributed team (15+ nationalities across 10+ countries).
Remotefirst setup, with the option to work from one of our 13 India locations: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida, Kolkata, Kochi, Coimbatore, Bhubaneswar, Mangalore, and Indore.
Flexible working hours.
Collaborative, pragmatic engineering culture focused on outcomes.
Be part of a fastgrowing team within Cognizant, with access to global resources and great career opportunities.

Senior Product Engineers