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.

Enabling the digital world

OpenText enables the digital world as the global leader in Enterprise Information Management, both on premises and in the cloud. We are committed to being the best place to work for more than 8,000 employees in over 120 locations. What we do, we do well. What we create, we do purposefully to impact the world. If you believe in this and are passionate about directing people towards a better way to work, then let OpenText enable your digital world career.

The Opportunity

As a Principal Software Engineer you will utilize superior knowledge and experience to perform highly complex product architecture, design, systems analysis, research, maintenance, troubleshooting and other programming activities. You will also play a key role in the development of work teams 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.

You Are Great At

• Lead, drive and implement highly scalable and complex enterprise solutions using cloud technologies
• Serve as a thought leader, mentor and advocate for best practices concerning Architecture, Engineering
• Define best practices, standards for development and deployment
• Collaborate with Product Owner to plan and prioritize tasks for others to support the achievement of team objectives
• Provide status updates to stakeholders and escalates issues when necessary.
• Lead and/or participate in the software development process from design to release in an Agile Development Framework
• Produce high quality code according to design specifications
• Utilize superior analytical skills to troubleshoot and fix highly complex code defects
• Lead software design/code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to company standards
  
  

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field with 14+ years of enterprise product development experience
• Strong hands-on experience in cloud technologies and microservices with high scalability. strong in AWS, serverless technologies.
• A strong understanding of Enterprise level Application Architecture, System Design
• Ability to define and drive High level and Low level design
• Good knowledge on algorithm design and analysis, including knowledge of data structures and design patterns
• Strong knowledge on web technologies
• Strong experience in database design, development and tuning.
• Good understanding of performance and security aspects of software development
• Knowledge of JavaScript web frameworks: Marionette, Backbone, RequireJS, JQuery
• Experience to build automation and test automation using CI/CD
• Experience to container products such as Docker
  
  

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 hr@opentext.com. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.