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Lead Software Engineer - Contract - CPT/JHB - Remote (PDG2000483459)

Overview

Reference
PDG2000483459

Salary
ZAR700 - ZAR820/hour

Job Location
-- South Africa

Job Type
Contract

Posted
02 June 2025

Closing date
02 Jul 2025 21:59


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


Contact information

Ashley Singh