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Lead Software Developer, Design Systems

Opentext 🇨🇦 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Onsite $118,000 - $168,000 (CAD) Full-time Lead

Lead the creation, maintenance, testing, and documentation of a reusable design-system component architecture used across multiple products. Guide technical discussions and cross-team initiatives, set quality standards, and mentor less experienced developers while aligning solutions with business and client needs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the creation, maintenance, testing, and documentation of a reusable design-system component architecture used across multiple products. Guide technical discussions and cross-team initiatives, set quality standards, and mentor less experienced developers while aligning solutions with business and client needs.

Requirements

  • The role requires 8–12 years of professional experience and strong leadership across teams, along with expertise in frontend development and reusable UI component systems. Candidates should have experience with React or Angular, JavaScript or TypeScript, Node.js, CI/CD tools, accessibility and WCAG, and an understanding of MCP and AI agent and skill definitions.

Key Skills

React Angular JavaScript TypeScript Node.js Frontend development Design system architecture Reusable UI component development Testing Documentation CI/CD tools Accessibility WCAG compliance MCP and AI agent definitions Technical leadership Cross‑team collaboration Mentoring junior developers Quality standards Agile methodology Software architecture

About Opentext

OpenText is a leading Cloud and AI company that provides organizations around the world with a comprehensive suite of Business AI, Business Clouds, and Business Technology. We help organizations grow, innovate, become more efficient and effective, and do so in a trusted and secure way—through Information Management. OpenText (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX), founded in 1991 in Waterloo, has a rich history of helping customers manage their most important asset—information. Originating from a collaboration to digitize the Oxford English Dictionary, OpenText has grown into a global leader in information management. With over 120,000 enterprise customers across 180 countries, OpenText supports 98 of the top 100 global companies. A wide breadth of offerings uniquely positions OpenText to help customers unlock the value of that information using Al, cloud, and security innovations. At OpenText, our culture is at the heart of everything we do—and today, that includes being proudly AI-first. We’re creatin

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