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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.\nAI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.\nAt OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do-powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.\nOpenText™ Cloud Platform (OCP) is our next-generation Information Management as a Service platform that enables development and deployment of multi-tenant SaaS applications. We are looking for a Senior Software Developer with a focus on Backend and AI development to join our platform development team.\nThis position is based in the OpenText office in Richmond Hill, Canada.\nYour Impact\nWe are looking for an individual with a passion for building quality, AI-powered software, and the ability to contribute within a team of passionate software developers and architects. The developer will have strong software development experience with a focus on backend systems and practical AI application development.\nWorking closely with Product Managers, Architects, Software Developers, and Cloud Operations teams, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and integrating advanced AI capabilities into our core platform services while managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure.\nThis is a tremendous opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation, contributing to highly scalable, reliable, AI-driven SaaS platforms and cloud solutions.\nWhat the role offers:\nThinking strategically about business, product, and technology challenges, especially in the context of integrating AI.\nImplementing robust backend and AI-driven software components within a highly scalable, performant, and secure cloud proposition.\nTaking ownership of complex problems, driving solutions from concept to production, even when they span multiple domains of expertise.\nWorking as part of a multi-disciplinary team of Software Developers to deliver the product roadmap by embracing agile/iterative methodologies and DevOps.\nDesign, deploy, automate, and manage infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to support highly available, secure, and scalable SaaS applications.\nDevelop, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize Terraform code used to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.\nCollaborating effectively with geographically dispersed teams. \nWhat you need to succeed:\nBachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.\nStrong development experience in Java (Spring Boot) and Python for backend and AI-driven application development.\nStrong experience developing backend services, REST APIs, microservices, and SaaS applications.\nHands-on experience taking solutions from concept through production deployment.\nExperience with Spring Boot (Web, Data, Cloud, Security), JUnit, Mockito, and database integration.\nPractical experience building AI-powered applications using LangChain, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Prompt Engineering, Large Language Model (LLM) APIs.\nGood understanding of Microservices architecture and DevOps methodologies.\nExtensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including infrastructure design, deployment, automation, and management.\nStrong knowledge and hands-on experience with Terraform.\nAbility to create, modify, troubleshoot, and optimize Terraform scripts and infrastructure modules.\nExperience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for cloud provisioning and environment management.\nFamiliarity with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, and automated deployment pipelines.\nExperience with cloud provisioning and service orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible).\nExperience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.\nUnderstanding of virtualization concepts and distributed systems.\nGood understanding of cloud computing environments, preferably GCP, with exposure to AWS, Azure, or Cloud Foundry considered an asset.\nExperience designing systems for scalability, performance, extensibility, and reliability.\nStrong understanding of cloud and application security best practices.\nFamiliarity with observability tools, logging, monitoring, metrics, and tracing.\nFamiliarity working in Agile/Scrum environments and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).\nExcellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.\nOne last thing:\nOpenText is more than a corporation-it’s a global community built on trust, character, and purpose. Here, we act ethically, care deeply about people, and always put our clients first. We help teams succeed through collaboration, tackle challenges with resilience, and innovate with intention.\nJoin us on our mission to drive positive change through privacy, technology, and teamwork. At OpenText, we don’t just have a culture-we live our values. Choose us because you want to be part of a company that empowers you to make a meaningful impact.\nOpenText's commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, evident in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy which promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.\nIf you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at . Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.\nCompensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. A summary of those benefits can be found on our Why Join Us page. 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