Staff Software Engineer - OCR / Text Extraction
Staff Full Stack Software Engineer leading OCR and text extraction systems for a legal document management SaaS, building event-driven architectures on AWS with C#/.NET, Kafka, and OCR technologies like Tesseract and Apryse.
- Compensation
- $170K–$190K / yr
- Location
- Remote - US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Systems, Computer Science, or 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
Nice to have
- Deep experience building with OCR & Text Extraction technologies
- Deep experience building document management or enterprise content management
- Deep knowledge of event-driven architectures
- Experience 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
Full description
NetDocuments is committed to providing an excellent candidate experience and will never ask you to engage in recruitment activity without phone, video, and in person meetings and communications from emails using the @netdocuments.com domain. If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to hrgroup@netdocuments.com so our team members can review.
About NetDocuments
At NetDocuments, we're shaping the future of legal work. We believe legal professionals should spend less time searching for information and managing documents, and more time solving complex problems, serving clients, and delivering meaningful outcomes. That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge.
Our team is redefining what's possible for legal technology. NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph—a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls.
Innovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact. Whether you're building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world's most trusted legal technology platforms.
That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including:
- Four consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
- Five-time Top Workplace USA winner
- Five-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace
- Multiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits
If you're excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we'd love to meet you.
What You'll Do
Every document that enters NetDocuments passes through our content extraction and transformation platform, which turns scanned images, PDFs and Office files into searchable text, structured data, and the foundation for AI features like semantic search. We process documents at very high volume, on an event-driven platform built on AWS.