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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.\nYour Impact:\nOpenText is a world leader in Information Management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are key components of our corporate culture. As a member of the Digital Experience Web Development team, you will help design, build, and operate secure, scalable digital platforms and AI-enabled solutions that serve customers and employees globally.\nAs a Sr. IT Software Developer (Digital Fullstack), you will independently deliver full-stack and platform capabilities for OpenText's digital experience ecosystem. You will work across front-end, back-end, APIs, content platforms, cloud services, and delivery automation. This is a hands-on senior individual-contributor role that owns defined solutions and smaller projects end to end, guides teammates where appropriate, and continuously improves engineering practices.\nWhat the role offers:\nDesign, develop, test, document, deploy, and maintain secure digital applications, APIs, integrations, and supporting services.\nBuild responsive and accessible user experiences using modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue.\nDevelop server-side components and integrations using technologies such as Node.js, Python, Java, REST APIs, event-driven patterns, and relational or document databases.\nAnalyze existing and projected applications and implement enhancements that meet functional, performance, security, availability, and supportability requirements.\nSupport and enhance CMS, DAM, customer portal, CDN, search, analytics, and cloud-based application capabilities.\nBuild and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, infrastructure configuration, deployment scripts, observability, and operational runbooks.\nUse containers, source control, artifact repositories, and cloud services to deliver repeatable deployments across development, test, and production environments.\nParticipate in Agile planning, estimation, backlog refinement, design reviews, code reviews, debugging, release activities, incident response, and root-cause analysis.\nApply secure-development, privacy, accessibility, and data-handling standards throughout the software lifecycle.\nEvaluate technical options, make evidence-based recommendations, and communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and business stakeholders.\nCoordinate defined work packages, guide less-experienced developers, and proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement.\nUse approved AI coding tools responsibly to accelerate delivery while maintaining code quality, explainability, security, and human accountability.\nWhat you need to succeed:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n5 years of professional software development experience.\nDemonstrated experience independently delivering production applications or systems across multiple stages of the software lifecycle.\nStrong knowledge of web fundamentals, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, JSON, HTTP, browser behavior, and accessibility.\nProficiency in at least one modern front-end framework and one server-side programming language or runtime, such as Node.js, Python, or Java.\nExperience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and working with relational or document databases.\nExperience with Git-based source control, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and structured deployment practices.\nWorking knowledge of cloud application services in at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.\nAbility to analyze incomplete information, adapt to ambiguity, select an appropriate course of action, and resolve complex but identifiable technical problems.\nStrong communication skills, including the ability to coordinate work and explain technical decisions to varied audiences.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with OpenText products such as Web CMS (TeamSite), Digital Asset Management (OTMM), OpenText Service Management (SMAX), and IDOL.\nExperience with CDNs, web application firewalls, DNS, SSL/TLS certificate automation, routing, redirects, caching, and web performance optimization.\nExperience with cloud-native services, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes or managed container platforms, and observability tooling.\nExperience with SSO, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, role-based access control, and secure API integration.\nExperience building AI-enabled applications, retrieval-based experiences, agents, or integrations with approved foundation-model services.\nPublic or shareable Git examples that demonstrate sound engineering practices.\nTechnical Assessment\nComplete a small production-shaped web solution that demonstrates data extraction, transformation, joining, API design, user experience, automated testing, and deployment readiness.\nAssignment\n1. Using the fewest lines of code in the language of your choice, display a triangle of 3x4. State any assumptions in the comments. Bonus: create a second function that accepts any M x N, where M and N are positive integers, and display the triangle with the specified dimension.\n2. As AI agents are becoming the default interface, we want to convert our web experience to be AI friendly. Design and develop a markdown converter for my.opentext.com knowledge articles. Examples:\nhttps://my.opentext.com/support/article/1986936\nhttps://my.opentext.com/support/article/2341059\nhttps://my.opentext.com/support/article/2310451\n1. Expose the result through an API.\n2. Provide a CI workflow that builds and tests the solution. Assumption: deploying to a hyperscaler serverless service, cached and delivered via a CDN.\n3. Provide the design diagram for how we can distribute this page to multiple clients or platforms, and suggestion on how to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the distribution.\nSubmission Requirements\nShare the source through GitHub, GitLab, CodePen, or an equivalent reviewable repository.\nInclude a README covering setup, architecture, assumptions, trade-offs, testing, security considerations, and known limitations.\nAI assistance is allowed. You must be able to explain, validate, and modify all submitted code during the interview.\nAs part of the submission, share the AI Coding Agent session or exported session transcript used to produce or refine the solution. The session will be reviewed to understand your problem-solving process, prompts, validation steps, corrections, and ownership of the final implementation. Remove secrets, credentials, personal data, or confidential information before sharing.\nOne last thing:\nOpenText 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\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. 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