Staff Software Engineer – OCR, Text Extraction

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $190k / year

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NetDocuments

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1998

🤝 B2B

⚖️ Legal

☁️ SaaS

B2B • Legal • SaaS

NetDocuments is a leading cloud-based document management platform designed specifically for legal professionals. The platform enhances productivity by providing tools for document organization, collaboration, and automation, while ensuring high levels of security and compliance. With features like AI-driven apps, real-time messaging, and seamless integrations with applications like Microsoft 365 and DocuSign, NetDocuments empowers law firms and corporate legal teams to streamline their operations and effectively manage their documents.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction for the document content extraction and transformation team • Lead architectural decisions using OCR technologies such as Tesseract and Apryse OCR • Drive scalability, performance, reliability, and cost-control initiatives • Guide the evolution of the content extraction and transformation technology stack • Design and implement event-driven architectures using AWS, Kafka, and modern data pipelines • Build production-grade full-stack applications across C#/.NET, AWS, and document extraction technologies • Design and implement scalable REST and GraphQL APIs • Integrate AI-driven services and emerging technologies • Enable semantic search capabilities • Apply security, performance, and compliance considerations • Own initiatives from concept through production and ongoing evolution • Implement observability with logging, metrics, telemetry, and tracing • Monitor and optimize performance at scale • Create technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and design decisions • Partner with product management and collaborate with Platform Services, Ops, and other teams • Mentor engineers and lead knowledge-sharing through code reviews, design discussions, and documentation • Research and prove out new technologies through POCs • Contribute ideas to improve engineering velocity and quality

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field—or equivalent experience • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications at scale on cloud platforms • 5+ years in technical leadership and development roles using OCR technologies • Proven track record of building scalable applications still in production • Expert proficiency in C#/.NET • Expert proficiency with OCR technologies such as Tesseract or Apryse • Expert proficiency building event-driven, microservice-based products • Expert proficiency developing on cloud platforms, preferably AWS • Expert proficiency with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms • Expert proficiency in observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, telemetry, preferably with DataDog • Deep experience building with OCR & Text Extraction technologies • Deep experience building document management or enterprise content management • Deep knowledge of event-driven architectures • Knowledge of ingesting millions of documents an hour into a SaaS-based document management platform • Track record of developing high-performance content extraction and transformation products at scale • Legal industry expertise or experience with B2B SaaS in regulated industries • Experience integrating AI services and emerging technologies into production systems

🏖️ Benefits

• 90% healthcare premiums company covered • HSA company contribution • 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting • Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year) • 10 paid holidays • Monthly contributions for life activities & wellness • Access to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore • Connection, access, and mentorship from exceptional leaders • Growing company with opportunities for advancement • Authenticity and accountability from leadership