Staff Software Engineer - OCR / Text Extraction

Role Overview

Staff Software Engineer focused on OCR / Text Extraction within NetDocuments’ document content extraction and transformation team. You will provide technical leadership, drive system architecture, and help deliver scalable, event-driven platforms powering mission-critical document solutions.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for document content extraction and transformation systems (scalable, secure, performant) on AWS.
• Lead architectural decisions using OCR technologies such as Tesseract and Apryse OCR.
• Improve scalability, performance, reliability, and manage cost controls without reducing customer satisfaction.
• Guide evolution of the content extraction/transformation technology stack as needs scale.
• Make technical decisions balancing UX, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures using AWS services, Kafka, and modern data pipelines.
• Build production-grade applications across frontend and backend to support next-generation document management systems.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering leadership to define system direction.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical excellence.
• Integrate cutting-edge capabilities, including AI-driven services and event-based data pipelines.

Requirements

• Experience building and architecting full stack and/or backend systems at scale.
• Strong technical leadership capability (setting direction, guiding teams, making key architecture decisions).
• Hands-on experience with OCR approaches/tools (e.g., Tesseract, Apryse OCR).
• Experience designing event-driven systems and building production platforms.

Nice-to-Haves

• Cloud-native architecture expertise, particularly with AWS.
• Experience with Kafka and data pipeline technologies.
• Experience integrating AI-driven services into production systems.