Python Developer

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About the role

The role focuses on building scalable data ingestion pipelines and extracting structured content from complex, often unstructured documents, especially PDF reports, scanned documents, and technical drawings. You will play a key part in enabling the GenAI application to access and reason over new data sources. This is a backend-focused role, with responsibilities centered on content extraction and processing. While exposure to GenAI technologies is beneficial, the primary requirement is deep hands-on experience with PDF/document processing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust data extraction pipelines to process diverse document types, especially PDFs with both text and scanned content.
• Customize extraction logic per data source, including metadata extraction (e.g., machine IDs, customer information).
• Work with document processing tools like Tesseract, Unstructured IO, or similar.
• Integrate with AWS-based infrastructure, including Lambda and ECS for deployment.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to onboard and validate new data sources.
• Ensure the high accuracy and quality of extracted data to support downstream GenAI use.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of professional experience with Python, especially in backend or data engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with document content extraction, particularly from PDFs with complex formats (e.g., scanned images, drawings).
• Familiarity with OCR tools (e.g., Tesseract) and content extraction libraries (e.g., Unstructured IO, pdfminer).
• Proficient in building modular, production-grade Python code with data models and validation (e.g., Pydantic).
• Working knowledge of AWS services, especially Lambda, ECS, and containerization with Docker.
• Ability to quickly understand new data structures and design custom ingestion strategies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working on GenAI or LLM-powered applications, especially in document understanding or search contexts.
• Experience with AWS Textract or Azure Document Intelligence for cloud-based content extraction.
• Familiarity with chunking strategies and data preparation for vector databases (e.g., for retrieval-augmented generation).
• Experience in fast-paced, deadline-driven projects and ability to deliver with minimal supervision.
• Comfortable working in globally distributed teams, with flexibility to align with European time zones.
• Overlap Hours: 5-8 hours with CET (UTC+2)

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