About this role
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
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll use your deep technical expertise to design, build and optimize complex features across our image processing and OCR products. You'll handle the full development lifecycle: system analysis and design, research, implementation, performance tuning, maintenance and troubleshooting, across multiple platforms and devices. Beyond delivering features, you'll help shape the technical direction of the product by evaluating new technologies and driving how we adopt them.
What the role offers
- Major emphasis on writing excellent code following industry best practices
- Create and maintain technical documentation
- Design and development of Capture components related to capture, processing, and recognition of business documents
- Ownership and technical leadership end-to-end; design, development, validation and test automation, deployment, and support in production.
- Work closely with Quality Engineering to review test plans and test cases
- Provide technical guidance for major software initiatives, including technology standardization and modernization.
- Team technical leadership: distribute tasks, track progress, technical risk assessment, problem solving, early risk notification, report progress and status to manager.
- Perform all assigned jobs with minimal assistance from the supervisor
- Respond promptly and professionally to bug reports and customer escalations
What you need to succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
- 6+ years of hands-on experience developing enterprise software products
- Proven track record of building, maintaining and improving enterprise applications
- Advanced proficiency in C++ and C, including modern C++ (C++11/14/17)
- Strong command of data structures, algorithms, multithreading and performance optimization
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design and design patterns, and judgment on when to apply them
- Experience with GCC Complier and Linux or open to work on Linux is a plus
- Strong debugging, triaging and root-cause analysis skills for complex technical issues
- Ability to understand, maintain and extend large, complex legacy codebases
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
One last thing
- Good hands-on in software development using C++ and C
- Experience in development and support of enterprise applications
- Experience in use of Microsoft Visual Studio
- Experience with GIT
- Experience with Image processing software development and familiar with OCR technology is a plus
- Knowledge of C# and .NET framework is a plus
- Experience with messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ, Exposure to Google Cloud Pub/Sub, or equivalent
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot
- Content management and Capture (IDP) domain experience would be a plus
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.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at [email protected] . Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.