Principal Software Developer

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANYOpenText 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.

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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.

The Capture Group of Open Text Enterprise Content Management platforms division is focusing on the development and maintenance of the Capture product line. The Capture technology transforms electronic and paper documents into application-ready information, providing a flexible, end-to-end capture solution that includes document capture, document classification, data extraction, information validation, and delivery to the backend system.

Your Impact:

We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Developer responsible for the design and implementation of services for ingestion, classification and extraction of content from business documents using a variety of techniques including OCR, machine learning for integration into cloud and on-premise Capture software products.  Qualified candidates will bring the latest software development, automation, AI, and deployment practices.

What the role offers:

As a Principal Software Developer, you will:

Define and drive platform portability strategy across the product portfolio, including target framework standardization, dependency rationalization, and separation of headless processing cores from interactive front ends.

Establish technical standards for inter-process and service communication, configuration management, logging, and observability across components.

Own and lead end-to-end technical; design, development, validation and test automation, deployment, and support in production.

Provide architectural guidance for major software initiatives, including technology standardization and modernization. Possess a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different software design and integration patterns

Effectively collaborate with senior stakeholders to gain collective buy-in on architecture strategies

Evaluate, test and provide recommendations for new tools for software development or product integration

Work with an international team in various time zones. Occasional travel may be required.

Work closely with Quality Development to review test plans and test cases

What you need to succeed:

MS or PhD in CS or a related technical field and 10+ years of enterprises software development experience

Required

Deep expertise in modern .NET (.NET 8/10) and .NET Framework, including runtime behavior, hosting models, assembly loading, and packaging, with the ability to make and justify target platform decisions at the assembly level.

Strong understanding of cross-platform constraints in .NET and native code, including Windows-only APIs, native/COM interop boundaries, 32-bit vs. 64-bit implications, and portable alternatives.

Experience decomposing monolithic or tightly coupled systems into services, including gRPC/Protobuf contract design and sidecar or out-of-process isolation patterns.

Experience in containerization and PaaS (example Dockers, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes), as well as IaaS.Working knowledge of data structures / databases / operating systems / distributed & messaging systems and microservices

Strong background in Client/server architecture

Working/developing complex Algorithms and…