Full Job Description
As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management.
The opportunity:
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will utilize superior knowledge and experience to perform complex product architecture, design, systems analysis, research, maintenance, troubleshooting, and other programming activities. You will also play a key role in the development by providing others with direction and leadership. You will also be involved in cross-team planning activities such as providing status updates and coordinating activities.
You are great at:
Architect and design robust and scalable solutions for cloud applications
Ability to write clean code that is well designed, testable, and maintainable
Leverage a multitude of services (both internally and externally) to deliver robust, scalable distributed systems.
Build software tools that allow for instrumentation, monitoring, and ad-hoc tasks to get executed
Make use of TDD and BDD to write tests that run on automate build systems
Understand the cost/benefit of different technologies and back up design decisions with thorough analysis and reasoning
Collaborate with developers across the organization to build multi-tier systems
Demonstrated ability to architect highly available, high volume, distributed systems in a service-oriented environment.
Proven ability to architect and design Micro-Services based solutions.
Previously worked with contemporary architecture, patterns and technologies and a demonstrated ability to lead solution definition and technology adoption.
Utilize superior analytical skills to troubleshoot and fix highly complex code defects.
Propose creative solutions or alternatives balancing risk, complexity, and effort to meet requirements.
Lead software design/code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to company standards.
The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill in software architecture and cloud computing as well as very strong written and public communication skills. The ideal candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
What it takes:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
11+ years industry experience in building SOA style applications in the cloud
Extensive experience with Java or Javascript based server-side development technologies, such as Spring Boot, Node.js, etc.
Strong experience building and consuming RESTful APIs, or working with modern UI framework such as React, Angular (Type Script)
Good experience in CSS, SCSS, SASS
Experience in architecting Kubernetes and Docker based solutions and CI/CI pipelines.
Experience building solutions on at least one of the major PAAS Clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
3+ years of experience building enterprise applications with relational database technologies (preferably Postgres) as well as NoSQL data stores.
Experience in handling performance and Security related aspects of web applications
Performs development, testing, documentation, and analysis and maintenance activities related to software applications.
Experience liaising with groups of people across several geographies
Excellent communication and time management skills
Knowledge of Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) or Case Management Model Notation (CMMN) standards
Experience working in a DevOps environment
Experience using git as a version control system
Experience with Apache Kafka, or other machine learning enablement tools
Experience with building Big Data solutions on NoSQL technologies
Experience with JMS and Kafka as streaming and messaging layers in solutions
Experience with architecting SOLR & ElasticSearch solutions
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