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Lead Software Developer

Open Text Corp
  • Gaithersburg, MD
  • $143,400–$215,000 Per Year
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Job Description

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 are hiring talent AI can''t replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

OpenText 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.

Your Impact

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.

What the role offers:

As a Lead Software Developer, you will:

  • 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.

What you need to Succeed:

  • 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 GitLab CI/CD.
  • 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

One last thing

OpenText 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 OpenText, we don't just have a culture-we live our values. Choose us because you want to be part of a company that empowers you to make a meaningful impact.

OpenText''s commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, evident in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy which promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, 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 submit a ticket at Ask HR. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText''s vibrant workplace.

Compensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. As you move through the hiring process, we're happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Salary Range: $143,400.00 - 215,000.00; Depending on the candidate's education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

California Residents: The pay range above is a reasonable estimate of salary based on pay scale, candidate experience, skills, and education. In addition to the comprehensive benefits noted above, the role may be eligible for bonus or commissions.

AI Usage Disclosure: As part of our commitment to transparency, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in various stages of our recruitment process, including resume screening, candidate matching, interview scheduling, and communications. These tools are designed to improve efficiency, reduce bias, and enhance candidate experience. All decisions regarding hiring are made by qualified human professionals, and we continuously monitor our AI systems to ensure fairness and compliance with applicable regulations.

Numbers & Facts

LocationGaithersburg, MD
IndustryComputer Software
Salary$143,400–$215,000 Per Year
Company Size5,000 to 9,999 employees
Year Founded1991
Websitehttp://www.opentext.com/

About Company

Who We Are

OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
Our EIM products enable businesses to grow faster, lower operational costs, and reduce information governance and security risks by improving business insight, impact and process speed.

Our Promise to our Customers

OpenText strives to...

  • enrich the way people use information
  • foster innovation
  • be trusted in our relationships
  • be committed to excellence in all that we do
  • work with our stakeholders, demonstrating honesty and passion towards common goals

Working at OpenText

There are several reasons for our top employer awards. Here are a few:

We’re a world class company.

At OpenText, we offer the stability of a blue chip and the spirit of a start-up.

OpenText launched in 1991 as a small spin-off company from the University of Waterloo in Canada. Twenty-two years later, we’re a truly global company with more than 8200 employees in over 140 offices around the world.

Working for OpenText means working for a truly global, world-class company with a solid customer base, stable cash flow, and the resources to execute well. We’ve grown to $1.3B annual revenue in 2013. And, most impressive has been our consistent upward growth, steered by an experienced leadership team.

We have an entrepreneurial culture.

While we’re big in many ways, we’ve maintained an entrepreneurial culture common to many technology company “start-ups”. We drive hard to achieve excellence. We value innovation, creativity, and collaboration.We welcome new opportunities and learn to pivot. It’s all about being smart, fast, and responsive to our customers.

Our values direct us.

Our values ensure we deliver on our mission and vision every day. Our values guide our actions with all of our stakeholders. It’s the OpenText way.

  • Customer: We need to obsess over our customers and ensure they are wildly successful.
  • Trust: Our customers entrust us with their most competitive information, we need to be their most trusted partner
  • Excellence: What we do, we do well. The highest form of excellence is mastery
  • Innovation: What we create, we do purposefully to impact the world.
  • Best Place to Work: We spend far too much time at work for it not to drive personal meaning. We need to leverage the collective genius and have the courage to shape a better future. Nothing is off the table.

Diversity makes us strong.

At OpenText, we serve customers of many cultures in many different countries.

We embrace diversity because we believe the best products, solutions, and customer service results from a workplace in which varied viewpoints are welcomed and encouraged. The wide-ranging backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of our employees are a powerful competitive advantage and crucial to our continued business success.

We are committed to hiring and maintaining a diverse workforce. We are also committed to fostering an environment - one in which the best people can do their best work and reach their full potential. This outcome is achieved in a work environment characterized by respect for lifestyle, cultural, and ethnic differences.

We have you covered.

We take care of our employees. We offer a generous compensation and benefits plan that is competitive to your position, responsibilities, and region of the world.

We’re an equal opportunity employer.

OpenText is an equal opportunity employer that recruits and hires world-class talent regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Skills

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  • Apache Kafkaunmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Best Practicesunmatched
  • Business-to-Business (B2B)unmatched
  • Business-to-Business (B2B) Exchangesunmatched
  • Candidate Screeningunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
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  • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
  • Continuous Integrationunmatched
  • Customer Escalationsunmatched
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  • Design Patterns Programming Methodologiesunmatched
  • Distributed Computingunmatched
  • Ecosystemsunmatched
  • Enterprise Applicationsunmatched
  • GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
  • Go Programming Language (Golang)unmatched
  • High Availabilityunmatched
  • Identify Issuesunmatched
  • Interviewing Skillsunmatched
  • Javaunmatched
  • Logisticsunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Microservicesunmatched
  • Operational Strategyunmatched
  • Operations Processesunmatched
  • Oracle Databaseunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Process Improvementunmatched
  • Product Managementunmatched
  • Productivity Managementunmatched
  • Professional Servicesunmatched
  • Programming Toolsunmatched
  • REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
  • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
  • Requirements Managementunmatched
  • Software Architecture Designunmatched
  • Software Developmentunmatched
  • Software Engineeringunmatched
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
  • Supply Chainunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
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