Lead Software Developer, OpenText
CA$118-168k
Information management for enterprises
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Information management for enterprises
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$118-168k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable intelligent and connected enterprises by managing, leveraging, securing and gaining insight into enterprise information, on-premises or in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- 8-11 years of relevant experience with highly developed professional/technical skills
- Expert in implementing (coding & unit testing) detailed design into application functionalities using Java/JEE as the primary development language
- Expert in JEE Web Services Technologies: e.g., JAXB, Java APIs for XML Messaging
- Advanced experience in enterprise design (Object Oriented Design, SOA, Domain Driven, etc
- Distributed and multi-threaded systems on a relational database
- Micro-services and distributed service-oriented architectures
- Design and implementation of REST APIs
- Developing a modern front-end framework
- Using a test-driven approach to writing code
- Frameworks: Spring 5+, Hibernate 5+ and Sencha
- Languages: Java 11+, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL
- Messaging Middleware: IBM MQ, Active MQ
- Databases: Relational database experience, Oracle/MySQL/ PostgreSQL
- Development tools: IntelliJ/Eclipse, Maven, Git
- Experience with performance testing, code debugging, monitoring, and JVM tuning
- Experience with the following technologies - Hazelcast, Kafka, Docker, BIRT Reporting
- Design Patterns
- JEE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition)
- JDK 11+
- JEE Web Application Technologies: e.g., Ajax, REST
- JEE Enterprise Application Technologies: e.g., JMS, Java Persistence, JDBC, Dependency Injection for Java
- Database
- Database structures
- DDL/DML: e.g., SQL, PL/SQL
- Database Platform: e.g., Oracle (expertise with Stored Procedures and User-defined functions),
- OS Platform (e.g. Windows, Unix, Linux)
- Application Servers (e.g. Oracle Weblogic, Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat)
- Other Development Technologies (e.g. Ajax, HTML, JQuery, XML, XSL, XSLT, CSS, Javascript, Freemarker, Junit, JSON, Jasper Reports, Shell scripting)
- Development Tools (e.g. Eclipse, Maven, Ant, SVN and GIT)
- Effective in communication, critical thinking and interpersonal skills
- Prior exposure to banking and capital markets infrastructure—specifically financial messaging (FIX/SWIFT), treasury management, or payment processing systems—is a strong plus
- Ability to be a hands-on leader on multiple projects and to assist in troubleshooting
- Behavior Characteristics: Strong attention to detail and process, collaborative and adaptable, independent, self-motivated, with high level of accountability, analytical
- Makes decisions within a project/function, guided by professional/technical expertise and known practices and established precedents
- Bachelor’s/College Degree in Computer Science/ Information Technology or equivalent in relevant discipline
What the job involves
- The lead engineer’s main role is to assist in preparing high and low level architecture design, to provide required documentations, to recommend process improvements (such as providing/improving the coding guidelines) and at the same time to code, test and analyze software programs and applications
- He is expected to serve as one of the team’s subject matter expert. The lead engineer can also perform project management tasks
- Assist in providing solution, integration, and physical design of the project
- Interact with the cross-functional teams
- Provide project estimates
- Lead and mentor developers in conceptualizing and developing new software programs and applications
- Prepare, review and/or approve project software requirements, specifications and other artifacts (Software Design Document, Entity Relationship Diagram, etc.)
- Assist in the preparation of Technical Architecture Documents
- Conduct research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standard in support of procurement and development efforts
- Recommend and implement software upgrades, tools and techniques
- Code software programs and applications according to specifications
- Implement process improvements (e.g. Code Review, Deployment)
- Analyze data from software analysis tools for the purpose of correcting errors, isolating areas for project improvement
- Generate statistics and prepare reports for management and/or team members on the status of the programming process
- Troubleshoot cross-component/technology issues in areas of expertise
- Provide production support as needed
- May engage in project level planning/project management
Our take
Founded in 1991, OpenText has spent more than three decades quietly becoming one of the world's most important players in enterprise information management, Its software helps some of the largest companies, governments and professional services firms tame the vast volumes of unstructured data that modern organisations generate every day.
Rather than standing still, OpenText has consistently evolved with the market. And in 2023, it pushed into the AI era with the launch of OpenText Aviator, a generative AI platform designed to power business networks and streamline IT operations, signalling that the company very much intends to stay relevant as enterprise technology shifts.
This momentum shows no signs of slowing down either. Alongside steady internal innovation, OpenText continues to grow through strategic acquisitions. And the company's culture seems to be keeping pace as well, having recently been named one of Forbes' World's Best Employers, recognized as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People, and included in TIME's life of the World's BEst Companies, a huge endorsement that its long-term success is being built on more than just software.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Waterloo, ON
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