Java Backend Engineer

Opentext - The Information Company

OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

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.

Your Impact

Software Engineer

with passion for technology and hands-on experience in software design and development. In this role you will work with cross-functional teams to lead multiple agendas, be responsible for all stages of design and development for products and platforms.

What The Role Offers

• Design and integrate software applications running on multiple platform types into overall architecture and product suite.
• Be the go-to person in the team for the most complex, hard-to-solve technical challenges.
• Understand the high-level requirements from the product manager and transform it to themes and features requirements for the development team.
• Develop requirements docs to describe the requirement, architecture, APIs, etc.
• Review and ensure the developers breakdown of features into User stories is sufficient and cover all points.
  

What You Need To Succeed

• Strong design skills with deep understanding of object-oriented programming
• Strong Java programming skills with experience in developing multi-threaded modules
• Deep experience using debugging and dump analyser tools
• Good understanding of web services (SOAP/REST) and related technologies such as AJAX, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, XML
• Knowledge of advanced design patterns
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience using Hibernate, JDBC, database programming, SQL programming
• Experience with UI tech stack will be an added advantage
• Experience working on enterprise-grade solutions
• Understanding of best development practices
• Experience of agile development methodologies such as SCRUM
• Knowledge of Secure development lifecycle
• Knowledge of Linux Operating System and related tool
  

One Last Thing

• You are persistent and inquisitive. You have to understand why things are happening the way they are.
• You are determined to understand cyber attack techniques at a very detailed level.
• You are a self-starter who is able to work with minimal management, however have strong collaboration and interpersonal skills to work together with several other professionals from other information security fields.
• You’re a creative thinker who wants to answer the question, “Why?”
• Your workstation is a pyramid of monitors that you can't take your eyes off of at the risk of missing something.
• You have a desire to learn new technologies.
• Your sense of humor, passion and enthusiasm shines through in everything you do.
  

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.
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