Lead Software Developer Hit enter to view the job description

March 13 2025
Industries IT: Services
Categories Programming, Development
Waterloo, ON • Full time

OPENTEXT
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.


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:

A Development role at OpenText is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to impact lives. As a key contributor, you'll be instrumental in constructing cutting-edge Information Management Solutions that contribute to sustainable supply chains, support refugees, and enhance medical information access to save lives. You will engage in solving meaningful challenges within a motivated team, gaining exposure to advanced technologies beyond individual access. You will be encouraged to cultivate an engineering mindset, driving the creation of innovative software solutions that address real-world problems and shape the future.

What the role offers:

As a Lead Software Developer, you will:

  • Work with big data, analytics, and machine learning
  • Identify and evaluate technologies for suitability
  • Help determine service architecture
  • Investigate and improve application performance
  • Provide strong technical leadership
  • Lead in setting the quality standards for the team's technical work, from code to software designs, while raising the skill level of less experienced team members.
  • Identify and course-correct when the current path does not meaningfully serve customer needs, playing a key role in setting longer-term business strategy.
  • Lead in setting the quality standards for the team's technical work, from code to software designs, while raising the skill level of less experienced team members.

What you need to succeed:

  • Java, SQL, Spring, Spring Boot
  • REST API / JSON
  • CI/CD and DevOps (GitLab, Kubernetes, Helm, kustomize, New Relic)
  • Python, Scala
  • NoSQL
  • Relational database experience (preferably Oracle)
  • Familiarity with SOA, containerization, Linux
  • Big data experience
  • Experience integrating with other components and systems at high volume
  • In-depth Vertica experience (big plus)
  • webMethods
  • Security and threat modeling experience
  • Data warehouse/processing/analytics: Snowflakes, DataBricks, GCP BigQuery, nifi, airflow, dbt, kafka/pulsar, Apache Spark, Flink
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum

One last thing:

OpenText is more than just a corporation, it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned.

Join us on our mission to drive positive change through privacy, technology, and collaboration. At OpenText, we don't just have a culture; we have character. Choose us because you want to be part of a company that embraces innovation and empowers its employees to make a difference.


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.

Apply now!

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