OpenText

Lead Software Developer

OpenText
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12 hours ago
Gaithersburg, MD, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$143k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, enhance, and support scalable, secure, and high-performing Visibility solutions.
  • Translate business requirements into maintainable and efficient technical solutions.
  • Collaborate with architects and senior engineering leaders on architecture, design, and technology decisions.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and engineering best practices across the 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.
  • Improve reliability, observability, operational efficiency, and system performance.
  • Partner with Professional Services on customer implementations, go-lives, and issue resolution.
  • Influence product direction through Visibility domain expertise and technical insight.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools and prompt engineering techniques to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of hands-on development experience.
  • Expert-level experience with Java 17/21 and 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.
  • Ability to design, build, and support highly available, scalable enterprise applications with strong software architecture and design-pattern expertise.
  • Experience operating cloud-native solutions in AWS and GCP with emphasis on resiliency, observability, and security best practices.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Anthos, Istio Service Mesh, Helm, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD.
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms, production incident resolution, AI-assisted software development, globally distributed teams, and large-scale event-driven architectures.
  • Experience in supply chain, logistics, transportation, visibility, or enterprise analytics domains is relevant to the role.

Benefits

  • OpenText provides a benefits package supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
  • The role includes vacation entitlement and paid time off.
  • The role may be eligible for bonus or commission compensation.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmJavaKubernetesOracle DatabaseSpring BootTerraform

Categories

OpenText

About OpenText

10,000+ employees

OpenText builds enterprise information management software and cloud services spanning content services, customer communications, B2B/EDI integration, eDiscovery, and cybersecurity. It sells licenses, subscriptions, and managed services to large enterprises and governments, with offerings available on-premises and in the cloud. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, OpenText (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX) has expanded through major acquisitions, including Micro Focus (2023) and Documentum (2017).

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