OpenText Exstream Software Engineer (Hybrid)

Location: Hybrid work at a hirify.global facility in Bloomington, Illinois; Dunwoody, Georgia; Richardson, Texas; or Tempe, Arizona, with approximately 40% in-office time each month beginning in late 2027. Applicants must be eligible to work lawfully in the United States immediately; visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $85,000–$120,000 per year, with potential yearly incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary. The high end is limited to applicants with significant relevant experience.

Company

hirify.global provides insurance and financial services and is modernizing customer communications technology to strengthen customer experiences.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and support batch applications using the OpenText Exstream composition toolset.
• Create high-volume customer-facing policy documents, renewal notices, billing statements, and other important notices for mail and online delivery.
• Use shared components, content imports, data dictionaries, driver files, schemas, and data merge techniques.
• Manage version-controlled code, shared forms, and package deployments across testing and production environments.
• Assess upstream and downstream impacts, troubleshoot issues, and support modernization through cloud technology adoption.
• Collaborate with business, infrastructure, and application teams while translating technical requirements into business terms.

Requirements

• Prior software engineering and programming experience.
• Experience with composition software, specifically OpenText Exstream or similar tools, including shared components and content import functionality.
• Familiarity with data dictionaries, Exstream driver files, and GitLab schema.
• Experience with code repositories, shared forms, version control, and deployment of package files to testing and production environments.
• Understanding of output formats such as AFP and PDF.
• Strong knowledge of data structures such as XSD and XML, and data merge techniques.
• Ability to assess upstream and downstream process impacts and troubleshoot problems.
• Awareness of coding standards for accessibility compliance.

Nice to have

• Understanding of Customer Communication Management practices and unit testing concepts and frameworks.
• Object-oriented programming experience and JavaScript or Python skills.
• Experience with additional OpenText Exstream tools, including Liquid Office, Communications Designer, Content Author, or Empower.
• Experience with agile development methodologies, automation, or AI technologies.
• Collaborative, adaptable, proactive, results-driven approach with a commitment to speed and quality.
• Curiosity, resourcefulness, creative problem-solving, and willingness to learn and share knowledge.
• Ability to contribute to product decisions and work comfortably in an evolving team environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement combining office and home work, with a standard 38:45-hour work week.
• Health, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, and wellbeing programs, with hirify.global paying most of the healthcare premium.
• Training, tuition assistance, mentoring, and employee resource groups.
• Paid time off, up to 20 days initially earned annually, parental leave, paid holidays, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
• Annual raise and bonus eligibility, financial coaching, and a 401(k) with company contributions of up to 7% of salary.