Lead Software Engineer

Why join OCLC?

OCLC is consistently recognized as a best place to work by several independent programs. We recognize and reward people and results with a comprehensive Total Rewards package. This means competitive compensation that reflects your unique contributions—performance, experience, and skills—along with exceptional benefits, including best-in-class health coverage, retirement plans with generous company contributions, and a commitment to your overall well-being.

• We know the best ideas don’t always happen at a desk. Take a walking meeting around our 100-acre campus or enjoy lunch on the patio. We’re committed to your success—both personally and professionally. Hybrid work environment: For many roles, three days a week on-site, with occasional additional days based on business needs.

• Free use of our on-site fitness center, gym sports, group exercise classes, and game room

• Onsite catering and cafeteria subsidized by OCLC

• Health and wellness events

• Work environments with individual and team spaces and the latest technology tools

• Paid parental leave and adoption assistance

• Tuition reimbursement and Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility

• Company-subsidized pricing on local tickets and memberships

Join us in transforming how people everywhere access information and be part of a mission-driven team that makes a global impact.

The job details are as follows:

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading software development initiatives. You will independently design, develop, and test complex software programs and systems. You will also collaborate with team members, mentor junior engineers, and provide technical guidance to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will also collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define, refine, and implement features and enhancements.

Responsibilities:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.

• 7+ years of software development experience .

• Demonstrated professional strength inJava: shipping, maintaining, and evolving production services—not occasional or peripheral use.

• Strongbash scripting at scalein production data-flow and batch environments; comfort maintaining and extending large script-based systems.

• Hands-on experience withApache Spark: developing batch workloads andtroubleshooting/tuningperformance and reliability (depth in patterns matters; specific cluster or vendor context can be learned on the job).

• Proven experienceowning large-scale batch processing and data flows: design, operation, troubleshooting, and evolution—including publishing datasets or indexes at scale.

• Experience withbatch orchestration and job schedulingin production (enterprise schedulers, dependency chains, failure recovery, and operational runbooks).

• Ability to work withmessy, evolving data: inconsistent schemas, multiple sources, and changing requirements; design for robustness and incremental improvement.

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be the principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.