Senior Data & Document Ingestion Engineer – OCR, RAG

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Create and develop scalable pipelines for the ingestion of documents including PDFs, scans, emails, and office files.

• Integrate and enhance OCR and document extraction technologies to achieve high-accuracy text and layout extraction.

• Construct workflows for text cleansing, normalization, semantic chunking, and metadata tagging.

• Handle unstructured formats such as PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Develop connectors for enterprise sources like SharePoint and email systems.

• Design data schemas and retrieval methods for downstream AI and RAG applications.

• Establish validation and monitoring loops to identify low-confidence OCR or extraction results.

• Ensure that ingestion pipelines comply with enterprise security, reliability, and latency standards.

• Implement logging, testing, and operational monitoring within data-processing workflows.

• Utilize Git, CI/CD, and best practices in software engineering for pipeline development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Between 5 to 10 years of professional experience in data engineering or backend/data-platform roles.

• Strong practical experience with Python and SQL.

• Demonstrated experience in building data ingestion and document-processing pipelines.

• Hands-on experience with unstructured documents, including PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, scans, or emails.

• Familiarity with OCR/document extraction tools such as AWS Textract or similar.

• Experience in constructing data-processing pipelines on public cloud platforms.

• Knowledge of AWS services like S3, Step Functions, and CloudWatch, or equivalent cloud services.

• Strong software development practices including Git, CI/CD, and automated testing.

• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Databricks in enterprise data environments is preferred.

• Preferred familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, or RAG architectures.

• Preferred experience in designing connectors for SharePoint, email, or other enterprise content systems.

• A background in insurance, financial services, or regulated-data environments is preferred.

• Proficiency in English is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Collaborative and inclusive company culture.