OpenText

Lead Software Developer

OpenText$118K — $168K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-12 years of professional experience in software development
  • Strong leadership skills with influence across teams
  • Expertise in frontend technologies: React, Angular, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript
  • Experience with build and release tools like GitLab and Jenkins
  • Hands-on knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) in engineering
  • Familiarity with design systems and reusable UI components
  • Understanding of AI-related programming concepts

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical discussions and set team quality standards
  • Develop and maintain composable component architecture used by multiple products
  • Deliver multi-team initiatives that enhance customer value
  • Quickly learn business contexts to inform decision-making
  • Identify and adjust direction to align with customer needs
  • Empower and elevate the performance of junior team members
  • Drive the use of advanced technologies in software solutions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
  • Opportunities for variable and commission compensation
  • Generous vacation entitlement and paid time off
  • Access to continuous learning opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance
Full Job Description
The Common Components unit provides shared software engineering services to global Product Management and development teams in the OpenText™ Products group. This includes User Experience Design support (guidelines and individual product designs), Product Information artifacts (product documentation and help), Localization support, Accessibility governance (VPAT, WCAG), Performance Engineering and Product Security, Build and release management tools and services.

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.

You will join our design system common components team to create, maintain, test and document our composable component architecture which is used by hundreds of engineers internally across many products and releases. Communication and technical abilities will help you understand business needs and design system needs. You will have the opportunities to lead technical discussions and provide technical knowledge of the web platform that may help solve and produce solutions for the design system but also in products where they are consuming the library.

What the role offers:

As a Lead Software Developer, you will:
  • Possess 8-12 years of previous professional experience.
  • Provide strong leadership for the team, wielding technical and business influence beyond team boundaries.
  • Drive multi-team initiatives spanning diverse domains, consistently delivering value that extends beyond the immediate team.
  • Quickly grasp the business context to enhance customer value significantly.
  • Make timely decisions, prioritizing customer trust over expediency, and leverage input to determine optimal technical solutions.
  • 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:
  • Frontend: React/Angular, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript
  • Design Systems: Experience creating, testing, documenting and maintaining highly polished UI components on a reusable scale for multiple products
  • Frontend frameworks: React, Angular
  • Programming languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js
  • CI/CD: GitLab; Jenkins, NPM, Artifactory
  • AI: Understanding of MCP, Agent definition files, AI Skill definitions
  • Accessibility: Working and demonstrated knowledge of how to engineer and build components and applications with WCAG guidelines.


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: $118,000.00 - $168,000.00; 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.0

About OpenText

OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management software. The company is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms. OpenText aims to help customers digitize their operations and optimize their information management processes. The company has made several acquisitions over the years to expand its product offerings and customer base. OpenText has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Learn more about OpenText
Size
14,300 employees
Market Cap
$7.8 billion
Industry
Founded
1991
5 Year Trend
+8.8%
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