Lead Software Engineer - Artificial Intelligence, LLM

OPENTEXT 
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.

The Opportunity:

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will utilize knowledge on AI and LLMs and experience to perform maintenance, troubleshooting and other programming activities. You will also play a key role in the development of work teams by providing others with direction and leadership. You will also be involved in cross-team planning activities such as providing status updates and coordinating activities.

You are great at:

• Lead, drive and implement highly scalable and complex solutions on AI, including LLMs, Inference Engineering and Prompt Engineering
• Produce high quality code according to design specifications
• Utilize superior analytical skills to troubleshoot and fix highly complex code defects
• Define best practices and standards for database design.
• Serve as a thought leader, mentor and advocate for best practices concerning data Architecture
• Lead software design/code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to company standards
• Collaborate with Product Owner to plan and prioritize tasks for others to support the achievement of team objectives
• Provide status updates to stakeholders and escalates issues when necessary.
• Lead and/or participate in the software development process from design to release in an Agile Development Framework

What it takes:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years of enterprise product development experience
• Strong OOD and Java programming experience is required
• Code Assist and Generative AI Experience is desirable
• Experience in Docker, Kubernetes is a must
• OAuth2 / OIDC experience is desired
• Experience in any of the IDE Plugin Skills is desirable

·        VS Code Plugin and/or Typescript skills

·        Jetbrains Plugin and/or Java skills

·        Visual Studio Plugin and/or C# skills

·        Eclipse Plugin and/or Java skills

• A strong understanding of Application Architecture, High level and Low level design
• Good knowledge on algorithm design and analysis, including knowledge of data structures and design patterns

• Fundamentally good programming and debugging skills
• Strong hands on experience in Java, Spring, and J2EE technologies
• Experience of Rust, TypeScript would be a plus
• Expert in Postgres, REST
• Good understanding of performance and security aspects of software development

• Good communication skills

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 hr@opentext.com.