Staff Software Engineer - OCR / Text Extraction

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<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-contrast="none"><span class="TextRun SCXW172170175 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172170175 BCX0">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 </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172170175 BCX0">communications</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172170175 BCX0"> from emails using the @netdocuments.com domain. If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to </span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW172170175 BCX0" href="mailto:hrgroup@netdocuments.co" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW172170175 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172170175 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">hrgroup@netdocuments.co</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172170175 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">m</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW172170175 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172170175 BCX0"> so our team members can review.</span></span></span></p> <p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About NetDocuments</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including:</p> <ul> <li>Four consecutive appearances on the <strong>Inc. 5000</strong> list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies</li> <li>Five-time <strong>Top Workplace USA</strong> winner</li> <li>Five-time <strong>Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace</strong></li> <li>Multiple <strong>Top Workplaces Culture Excellence</strong> awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation &amp; benefits</li> </ul> <p>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.</p></div><p><strong>What You’ll Do&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>NetDocuments is seeking a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our next-generation document management systems. As a senior technical leader, you’ll drive the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, event-driven platforms that power mission-critical frontend and backend solutions for our global customer base.&nbsp;</p> <p>This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of backend architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, and full stack development—someone who builds production-ready applications at scale while guiding teams toward technical excellence. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering leadership to define the direction of our systems and integrate cutting-edge technologies, including AI-driven services and event-based data pipelines.&nbsp;</p> <p>If you’re passionate about building resilient systems, mentoring engineers, and driving innovation in how organizations manage and interact with their documents, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.&nbsp;</p> <p>You will:&nbsp;<br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Technical Leadership &amp; Architecture </span></p> <ul> <li>Set technical direction for our document content extraction and transformation team, establishing patterns for scalable, secure, and performant systems on AWS.&nbsp;</li> <li>Lead architectural decisions that use OCR technologies such as Tesseract and Apryse OCR.&nbsp;</li> <li>Drive initiatives that improve scalability, performance, and reliability of the product while considering and implementing changes that control costs without impacting customer satisfaction.&nbsp;</li> <li>Guide the evolution of our content extraction and transformation technology stack as the business and customer needs mature and scale.&nbsp;</li> <li>Make critical technical decisions that balance user experience, performance, security, and maintainability.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Product Design and Build&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li>Design and implement event-driven architectures using AWS services, Kafka, and modern data pipelines.&nbsp;</li> <li>Build production-grade applications across C#/.Net, AWS services, and document extraction/transformation technologies.&nbsp;</li> <li>Design and implement scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL) that power our front-end and enable third-party integrations.&nbsp;</li> <li>Integrate AI-driven services and emerging technologies to enable greater backend