Staff Software Engineer - OCR / Text Extraction
NetDocumentsResponsibilities
- Set technical direction and make architectural decisions for scalable, secure, and performant document extraction and transformation systems on AWS.
- Design and implement event-driven architectures, data pipelines, scalable APIs, and production-grade full-stack applications.
- Build and optimize OCR, text extraction, document processing, semantic search, and AI-service integrations.
- Own initiatives from concept through production, addressing scalability, performance, reliability, technical debt, security, and compliance.
- Implement observability with logging, metrics, tracing, and telemetry, and monitor systems for performance bottlenecks.
- Create technical documentation, including architectural diagrams and design decisions.
- Partner with product management, Platform Services, Ops, and other engineering teams on technical solutions and shared infrastructure.
- Mentor engineers, lead code reviews and design discussions, and drive knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Research and validate emerging technologies through proofs of concept aligned with product strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications at scale on cloud platforms.
- At least 5 years of technical leadership and development experience using OCR technologies.
- Expert proficiency in C#/.NET, OCR technologies such as Tesseract or Apryse, event-driven microservice-based products, cloud platforms preferably AWS, and Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
- Expert proficiency in observability practices including logging, metrics, tracing, and telemetry, preferably with Datadog.
- Proven experience building scalable applications that remain in production.
- Deep experience with OCR and text extraction, document management or enterprise content management, event-driven architectures, and high-performance content extraction products.
- Experience ingesting millions of documents per hour into a SaaS document management platform.
- Legal-industry expertise or experience with B2B SaaS in regulated industries is preferred.
- Experience integrating AI services and emerging technologies into production systems is preferred.
Benefits
- The company covers 90% of healthcare premiums and contributes to an HSA.
- 401(k) match of 4% with immediate vesting.
- Flexible PTO, typically 3 to 4 weeks per year, plus 10 paid holidays.
- Monthly contributions for life activities and wellness.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning with dedicated monthly learning time.
- Mentorship and access to company leaders, career advancement opportunities, and a collaborative workplace.
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About NetDocuments
NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-native document management system (DMS) for 25+ years, delivers everything lawyers need to do their best work, including award-winning automation and AI to email management, search, collaboration, document bundling, advanced security, and more. With the industry's first legal context graph and a reimagined user experience built around it, NetDocuments supercharges those experiences by connecting every matter, every project, and every case while respecting an organization's permissions and ethical walls. Supporting more than 7,000 law firms, corporate legal departments, and public sector organizations worldwide, the platform integrates with 150+ other technologies, including Microsoft 365, Claude by Anthropic, and DocuSign, making it a core solution that meets users wherever they work. To learn more, visit netdocuments.com.