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Lead Software Developer (React)

OpenText14 days ago
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Senior Level
full_time

About the role

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We're hiring talent that AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Digital Experience (DX) is the new marketing domain. 89% of companies plan to make Customer Experience their number one area of engagement by next year. Upgrading customer experience capabilities helps companies to unlock new revenue streams and bolster existing ones, attract and retain customers, and reach new segments—all while driving higher conversion and engagement. OpenText’s rich portfolio of Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Customer Communication Management, and Workforce Optimization solutions offer exciting and compelling ways to address customer needs in this area.

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:

Looking for a smart and motivated senior-level ReactJS/HTML5/JavaScript Developer with experience in creating amazing and responsive user interfaces to join our Digital Media team, working on the leading enterprise-level Digital Asset Management solution. We are an agile development team with close cooperation across development, quality assurance, documentation, performance management and project management. All projects have performance, scalability, and stability requirements: The application components must run both on cloud and on premise. Thus, great importance is placed on code quality and thoroughness in design. As Frontend Developer, you will be joining a team responsible for developing, innovating and maintaining our award-winning platform and user experience. In addition will the opportunity to join our latest multi-tenant SaaS development. If you have a passion for state-of-the-art UI technology, and like the idea of developing the industry leading product, you could be a good fit.

As a Lead Software Developer, you will:

  • Understanding, maintaining, modifying, and extending large, complex JavaScript frameworks
  • Adhering to project deadlines and delivering quality code
  • Translating UI/UX design wireframes to actual code
  • Assisting in user story identification, task breakdown, effort estimation and implementation of new software features in an incremental manner using agile methodologies
  • Collaborating with other developers to enhance the UI software architecture.
  • Delivering high quality software that is scalable, high-performing, and robust.
  • Building reusable code and libraries for future use
  • Performing and participating in code reviews
  • Assisting customer support staff and customers with troubleshooting
  • Researching new technologies and software solution – out-of-the-box innovative thinkers are highly valued.
  • Staying current in the field of software development; learning new programming platforms, tools and languages as needed

What you need to Succeed:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • Advanced web design skills (ReactJS/ HTML5, Typescript /JavaScript, jQuery, web components, CSS are required).
  • A fundamental understanding of component design and how it applies to the web.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience with ReactJS/JavaScript.
  • Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX/AXIOS
  • Experience with routing-based apps
  • Experience working on web applications/single-page apps.
  • LESS/Sass or any CSS preprocessor, and familiarity with third party UI libraries such as MaterialUI.
  • At least a basic knowledge of how to use node.js/webpack.
  • Familiarity with micro-frontend architecture patterns would be beneficial.

Desired:

  • Proficient knowledge using rational databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, PostgreSQL would be beneficial
  • Experience using AI tools to improve code output and quality
  • Familiarity with AI integration patterns such as integrating with chatbots and LLM service APIs

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.

About OpenText

Software Development
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OpenText is a world leader in Information Management, helping companies securely capture, govern and exchange information on a global scale. OpenText solves digital business challenges for customers, ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to the largest and most complex organizations in the world. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX), visit www.opentext.com