Principal Software Engineer

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.

About The Team

Be part of the team responsible for powering some of the largest companies in the world today. The Applications team builds industry specific solutions that enable businesses to thrive in a data driven world, allowing our customers to make a real impact on millions of people all throughout the globe. We are building content-centric applications for the next generation of businesses - that means deconstructing the status quo, moving fast, and forming solutions that will surpass lifetimes.

Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Software Engineer you will utilize superior knowledge and experience to perform complex product architecture, design, systems analysis, research, maintenance, troubleshooting and other programming activities. You will also play a key role in the development by providing others with direction and leadership. You will also be involved in cross-team planning activities such as providing status updates and coordinating activities.

Job Description & Responsibilities

• Architect and design robust and scalable solutions for cloud applications
• Ability to write clean code that is well designed, testable, and maintainable
• Leverage a multitude of services (both internally and externally) to deliver robust, scalable distributed systems.
• Build software tools that allow for instrumentation, monitoring, and ad-hoc tasks to get executed
• Make use of TDD and BDD to write tests that run on automate build systems
• Understand the cost / benefit of different technologies and back up design decisions with thorough analysis and reasoning
• Collaborate with developers across the organization to build multi-tier systems
• Demonstrated ability to architect highly available, high volume, distributed systems in a service-oriented environment.
• Proven ability to architect and design Micro-Services based solutions.
• Previously worked with contemporary architecture, patterns and technologies and a demonstrated ability to lead solution definition and technology adoption.
• Utilize superior analytical skills to troubleshoot and fix highly complex code defects.
• Propose creative solutions or alternatives balancing risk, complexity, and effort to meet requirements.
• Lead software design / code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to company standards.

The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill in software architecture and cloud computing as well as very strong written and public communication skills. The ideal candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Skills Required

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 [HIDDEN TEXT]. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.

Skills Required

Java, Css, Solr, Node.js, Spring Boot, Sass, Google Cloud, Angular, Elasticsearch, Nosql, Jms, React, Javascript, Docker, Scss, Apache Kafka, Postgres, Restful Apis, Azure, Kubernetes, Aws