Lead Software Developer
About The Position
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. 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.
Requirements
- 8-12 years of previous professional experience.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Create, maintain, test and document our composable component architecture which is used by hundreds of engineers internally across many products and releases.
- 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.
Benefits
- Compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
