Lead Software Developer

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY

Open Text 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 Open Text, AI is at the heart of everything we do-powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Open Text Business Network is a cloud platform that facilitates efficient, secure and compliant collaboration across digital ecosystems of people, systems and things. The platform comprises solutions that simplify the inherent complexities of business-to-business (B2B) data exchange and offers insights that drive operational efficiencies, speed time to revenue and improve customer satisfaction.

The Lead Software Engineer for Visibility is a senior, hands-on technical leader responsible for the design, development, support, and continuous evolution of Visibility solutions across TG Insights and legacy Visibility products.

Working closely with Lead Developers, Principal Engineers, Global Architects, Product Management, Professional Services, and Cloud Operations teams, this role provides technical leadership during North American business hours, helping drive architecture decisions, software delivery, client success, and operational excellence.

• Design, develop, enhance, and support scalable, secure, and high-performing Visibility solutions.
• Translate business requirements into practical, maintainable, and efficient technical solutions.
• Collaborate with Global Architects and senior engineering leaders on architecture, design, and technology decisions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and engineering best practices across the Business Network Visibility organization.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for development, production, and client-impacting issues.
• Lead investigation, troubleshooting, and resolution of critical production incidents and customer escalations.
• Drive improvements in reliability, observability, operational efficiency, and overall system performance.
• Partner closely with Professional Services during customer implementations, go-lives, and issue resolution activities.
• Influence TG Insights product direction through deep Visibility domain expertise and technical insight.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools and prompt engineering techniques to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.

• Expert-level experience with Java 17/21 and developing Spring Boot microservices
  .
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices
  , and enterprise integration patterns.
• Deep experience with Apache Kafka
  , including consumer groups, partitioning, offset management, schema evolution, and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Database and Cassandra in scalable enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to design, build, and support highly available, scalable enterprise applications with strong software architecture and design pattern expertise.
• Experience developing and operating cloud-native solutions in AWS and GCP
  , with a focus on resiliency, observability, and security best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Anthos, Istio Service Mesh, Helm, Terraform
  , and Git Lab CI/CD
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• Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms, production incident resolution, AI-assisted software development, globally distributed teams, and large-scale event-driven architectures in supply chain, logistics, transportation, visibility, or enterprise analytics domains.
• 7 + yrs of hands on development experience required

Open Text is more than a corporation-it's a global community built on trust, character, and purpose. Here, we act ethically, care deeply about people, and always put our clients first. We help teams succeed through collaboration, tackle challenges with resilience, and innovate with intention.

Join us on our mission to drive positive change through privacy, technology, and teamwork. At Open Text, we don't just have a culture-we live our values. Choose us because you want to be part of a…