Staff Software Engineer - OCR / Text Extraction
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About the Role
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.
NetDocuments is the world’s #1 trusted cloud-based content management and productivity platform that helps legal professionals do their best work. We strive to win together through passionate hard work, exploring new things and recognizing every interaction matters.
NetDocuments provides rewarding career growth in an inclusive, diverse environment where employees are encouraged to openly contribute creative ideas and innovation, backed by supportive peers and leadership working together to achieve our goals as a unified team.
At our core, we are dedicated to empowering our employees to drive successful business outcomes and better user experiences for our customers and partners. Our customer-centric approach and employee enablement has allowed us to enjoy many accolades, including being named among the 2022, 2023, & 2024 list of Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America.
Other recent awards include:
- Five-time winner (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021) Top Workplace in the US by the Salt Lake Tribune
- Four-time winner (2025, 2023, 2022, 2021) Best Companies to Work for by Utah Business magazine
- Three-time winner (2025, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Employee Appreciation and Employee Well-Being
- Three-time winner (2024, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Work-Life Flexibility
- Three-time winner (2024, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Compensation & Benefits
- Two-time winner (2024, 2023) National Top Workplaces
- Two-time winner (2024, 2023) Top Workplace Innovation
- 2025 Remote Work
- 2024 Technology Industry
NetDocuments is a hybrid, remote-friendly workplace. Come join our team and work inspired each day!
What You’ll Do
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.
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.
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.
You will:
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Set technical direction for our document content extraction and transformation team, establishing patterns for scalable, secure, and performant systems on AWS.
- Lead architectural decisions that use OCR technologies such as Tesseract and Apryse OCR.
- Drive initiatives that improve scalability, performance, and reliability of the product while considering and implementing changes that control costs without impacting customer satisfaction.
- Guide the evolution of our content extraction and transformation technology stack as the business and customer needs mature and scale.
- Make critical technical decisions that balance user experience, performance, security, and maintainability.
Product Design and Build
- Design and implement event-driven architectures using AWS services, Kafka, and modern data pipelines.
- Build production-grade applications across C#/.Net, AWS services, and document extraction/transformation technologies.
- Design and implement scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL) that power our front-end and enable third-party integrations.
- Integrate AI-driven services and emerging technologies to enable greater backend efficiencies and increase customer productivity.
- Build the product to enable seamless, scalable, and flexible semantic search capabilities.
- Ensure security, performance, and compliance considerations are applied across all implementations.
Problem Solving & Ownership
- Solve complex technical challenges from real-time customer experiences and issues to event-driven document processing at scale.
- Take full ownership of initiatives from concept through production and ongoing evolution.
- Make sound architectural decisions by weighing trade-offs with reasoning that stands up over time.
- Proactively identify and address technical debt before it impacts the team.
Build and Optimize Systems
- Write high-quality, well-tested code across the full stack with emphasis on maintainability.
- Design resilient systems that maintain uptime and performance as we scale globally.
- Implement observa
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