Jobs at OCLC, Inc.

Build and maintain a new software platform by independently designing, developing, testing, debugging, and shipping features. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers on architecture, code reviews, and problem-solving. Optimize application performance and scalability, maintain existing systems, and contribute to Agile delivery practices. The role requires software development experience, programming skills, database knowledge, AI tool integration experience, and familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.

Serve as a strategic quality leader by defining testing vision, organizational quality standards, quality KPIs, and innovative automation practices. Lead scalable test framework improvements, risk-based testing, architectural quality discussions, and early QA involvement. Apply AI-assisted testing for test generation, self-healing automation, predictive risk analysis, and failure analysis while establishing responsible-use guardrails. Collaborate with senior leadership to drive quality culture, roadmaps, and best practices across projects.

Principal Software Engineer serving as a technical leader for resource-sharing initiatives. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, designing distributed systems and microservices, evaluating technical trade-offs, mentoring engineers, improving engineering quality and security, collaborating with architects and product leaders, and integrating AI-enabled development tools. The role requires extensive Java and Spring expertise, React and TypeScript experience, PostgreSQL proficiency, Linux-based systems development, CI/CD, automated testing, and enterprise software delivery experience.

Supports and enhances a library platform by managing Linux infrastructure, automating deployments and configuration, improving monitoring and observability, resolving incidents, supporting customer deployments, strengthening CI/CD, documenting procedures, and mentoring technical teams.

Develop and support a high-throughput Java/Spring link-harvesting and evaluation service. Responsibilities include designing features, building RESTful integrations, testing, debugging, performance optimization, database-driven development, code reviews, observability, CI/CD delivery, and collaboration across distributed teams. The role also uses AI-assisted development and explores ML/LLM applications to improve link-evaluation accuracy and efficiency.

Leads technical teams of up to nine people supporting the OCLC Wise platform. Responsibilities include people leadership, talent development, delivery management, capacity and resource planning, operational excellence, technical decision support, platform reliability, risk management, KPI monitoring, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Operations, Security, QA, and Customer Support.

Lead design, development, and optimization of search technologies powering global library discovery. Own Solr-based search platforms, integrate streaming and batch data (Kafka, Hadoop), implement Java/Python solutions, and collaborate with product, research, and operations to improve relevance, performance, and scalability.

Lead and develop QA/Test Engineers across products; define and execute testing strategies (manual, automated, performance, accessibility, API/UI); drive QA modernization with automation and AI-assisted testing; manage QA planning, metrics, release readiness, CI/CD quality gates, test environments, and stakeholder collaboration to improve delivery confidence and product reliability.

Serve as the primary Workday HRIS gatekeeper for master data management, administering Absence, Benefits, Time Tracking, Learning and Payroll modules. Maintain data integrity through audits, reporting, testing, upgrades, user support, training, and cross-team collaboration to align HR systems with business goals.

Manage bibliographic and holdings data lifecycle: ingest, normalize, enrich, match, and troubleshoot data quality issues. Support automated pipelines, use Power BI for monitoring, apply AI-assisted tools for record matching, document workflows, and coordinate with vendors while learning scripting and cloud data concepts under regular supervision.

Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams, contribute to design discussions and code reviews, implement new features, optimize performance and scalability, and integrate AI tools and frameworks into the development process.

Lead a small cross-functional engineering team as a hands-on technical manager (25–40% coding). Own architecture, cloud-native services on AWS, CI/CD, observability, incident readiness, ETL/data pipelines (Python), API and integration design, backlog planning, and team coaching including hiring, performance, and career development.

Develop and manage product development processes for Global Product Management; maintain portfolio tracking of business cases, ensure prioritization and handoffs, enforce use of Aha! and Jira, monitor backlogs, publish roadmaps, manage GPM intranet, run post-approval reviews, and develop KPIs and cross-functional reports on revenue, win/loss and customer feedback.

Own and drive product development for WorldCat data ingest, enrichment, and interoperability. Define strategy, maintain roadmap, lead cross-functional teams, collaborate with marketing/finance, analyze markets, and support portfolio planning to modernize an entity-first semantic data layer.

Serve as a strategic HR advisor to senior leaders, driving talent management, workforce planning, organizational design, change management, leadership coaching, employee relations, and HR analytics to improve organizational effectiveness and employee engagement.

Design, develop, and test complex web software and systems. Provide technical guidance, participate in architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, ensure code quality, mentor team members, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver high-quality solutions.

Design, develop, and support scalable cloud-native full-stack applications using Node.js/TypeScript, Svelte, and Rust. Manage PostgreSQL databases, Linux servers, Kubernetes/ECS deployments, and AWS services. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, drive architecture and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable SaaS features.

Design, develop, test, and deliver complex software systems. Lead small teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, and integrate AI and cloud solutions into products.

Lead development and delivery of AI-enabled discovery experiences for FirstSearch. Define product strategy, roadmaps, and pricing; translate researcher needs into semantic search and NLU features; partner with engineering, design, marketing, finance, and user groups to launch and iterate products; oversee cross-functional workgroups, market analysis, and go-to-market activities to drive value for member libraries.

Design, develop, and test complex software systems; lead small teams and mentor junior engineers; participate in architecture, conduct code reviews, and ensure high-quality delivery with cloud and AI integrations.