Lead Software Developer

Opentext - The Information Company

OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We're hiring talent that AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Your Impact

As a Lead Software developer, you will utilize superior knowledge and experience to perform highly complex product design, systems analysis, research, maintenance, troubleshooting and other programming activities. These would cut across various systems and devices. At the core will be the need to drive future technology implementations.

What The Role Offers

• Produce high quality architecture and design specifications.
• Architecture and design oriented towards multiple devices and platforms
• Detailed technical design for mobile products and applications.
• Deliver POCs and estimates at short notice on integrations and technology choices
• Guide senior engineers to deliver high quality design and code
• Code complex pieces of framework or integrations
• Propose creative solutions or alternatives balancing risk, complexity, and effort to meet requirements.
• Lead software design/code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to standards.
• Mentor other team members.
• Work across teams and functional roles to ensure interoperability among other products, including training and consultation.
• Participate in the software development process from design to release in an Agile Development Framework.
  
  

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years of enterprise product development experience
• Strong hands on experience in Java/ J2EE, HTML, Javascript, CSS
• Fundamentally excellent programming and debugging skills
• Web based platform/application development
• Excellent expertise on various DBs like SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres & HANA.
• Building and consuming webservices (using RESTful APIs)
• Understanding of performance and security in the mobile and enterprise context
• Responsive design
• Agile methodologies
• Proficiency with Web Services, SOAP, WSDL and XML, XML Schema and XPath
• Proficiency in UI skills, Object Oriented JavaScript programming
• Good programming practices with solid object-oriented development experience.
• Exposure to agile development processes
• Excellent communication and time management skills
• Exposure or knowledge on OScript will be an advantage.
• Content management domain experience would be plus
• Should be up to date with AI trends, tools, and best practices relevant to development of UI solutions and information management
• having experience in building AI Agents & Tools would be plus
• Having good experience of Agentic AI frameworks, development and deployment of tools and agents would be plus
  
  

One last thing

OpenText is an equal opportunity employer that hires and attracts talent regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation. At OpenText we acknowledge, value and respect diversity. We draw on diversity of thought and experience to reflect the rich array of cultures representing our broad global customer base. As a technology company, we can only be as good as the people who are part of our team. To that end, we seek talent with diversity of life experiences and perspectives from around the world

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at [email protected]. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.