Lead Software Engineer - Contract - CPT/JHB - Remote

Recruiter:

HR Genie

Job Ref:

PDG2000483459

Date posted:

Monday, June 2, 2025

Location:

South Africa, South Africa

Salary:

R700 - 820 per hour

SUMMARY:
Lead Software Engineer

POSITION INFO:

Our Client a Global Tech firm is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their team in PE or the Eastern cape (Onsite) on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth and attractive rates.

The organization is attempting to implement a major component of that is to be data driven, our team is responsible for collecting, interpreting and displaying the data in a way that will provide insights into teams, business units and value streams.

Lead / manager with hands on technical experience taking OCR / IDP tooling into an organization, and stakeholder management.

We are looking to bring an AWS based vendors OCR/IDP solution into the organization and are building a new team who will assess vendor products to use once assessed, integrate the system into our organization extend the system into our broader AI Strategy.

Responsibilities:

A Software Developer / Engineer with experience with OCR/IDP systems.

WS Environment (required). EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions, IAM, etc.)
Experience in OCR & IDP tooling and projects
AWS Textract (optional)
AWS Comprehend (optional)
AWS A2I (optional)
LLM-based QA, LLM and vision models based OCR extraction, summarization, decision-making for IDP
HuggingFace and Open source AI vision models exposure (optional)
Technical Evaluation techniques of OCR & IDP projects

Experience:

5-10 years of experience as a Lead Software Developer
OCR & IDP experience
AWS experience

Must-haves:

WS Environment (required). EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions, IAM, etc.)
Experience in OCR & IDP tooling and projects

Mandatory Skills:

AWS Environment (required). EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions, IAM, etc.)
Experience in OCR & IDP tooling and projects
Team lead experience or experience in peer code reviews at a senior level

Desired Skills:

AWS Textract (optional) / WS Comprehend (optional) / AWS A2I (optional)

Skill Matrix:

Programming 9-10 years
Web Development 9-10 years
Microsoft Azure 9-10 years
Exp with OCT/IDP systems 9-10 years

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