Staff Software Engineer - OCR / Text Extraction

Role overview

NetDocuments is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (OCR / Text Extraction) to help shape next-generation document management systems. You will act as a senior technical leader driving architecture and delivery of scalable, event-driven platforms that power mission-critical frontend and backend solutions.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for the document content extraction and transformation team, defining patterns for scalable, secure, and performant systems on AWS.
• Lead architectural decisions using OCR technologies such as Tesseract and Apryse OCR.
• Improve scalability, performance, and reliability, while controlling costs without degrading customer satisfaction.
• Guide the evolution of the extraction/transformation technology stack as product and customer needs scale.
• Make critical tradeoff decisions across user experience, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures using AWS services and Kafka with modern data pipelines.
• Build production-grade applications and support technical excellence through mentoring and leadership.

Nice-to-haves / focus areas (implied)

• Integrating AI-driven services into document workflows.
• Working across frontend and backend systems with cloud-native infrastructure.
• Mentoring engineers and driving innovation in how organizations manage and interact with documents.