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Software Engineer/Optical Character Recognition (OCR)/Remote

Oakland, CA

100% Remote

Contract

$56.67/hr - $70/hr

Exciting Software Engineer opportunity with an established firm! This is a contract role with potential to convert perm. Must be in commute range to San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA, Rancho Cordova , CA, or Alpharetta, GA. There may be occasional onsite work needed.

Contract Duration: 7 Months

Required Skills & Experience

+ Degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent technical education and experience.

+ Minimum seven years of experience designing and developing high performing and secure Applications.

+ Experience with Optical Character Recognition (OCR), ie. FIS FormWorks, Mavro, OPEX, impira, etc.

+ Expertise in OCR editor configuration and batch support.

+ Expertise in Azure AI Doc Intelligence

+ Experience in building and maintaining DEVOPS GHEC Pipelines

+ Experience in configuring Observability Platform (Datadog)

+ Expertise in 834 EDI file format and processing

+ Knowledge of current trends and best practices enabling sound technology choices and strategic decisions.

+ Spearheads the development of innovative approaches to detect, respond to, and eradicate tech debt, anti-patterns and advance threats.

+ Ability to research and apply innovative methodologies, latest industry trends, design patterns.

+ Recognizes underlying problems, opportunities, or the political forces affecting the organization.

+ Subject matter expert responsible for sharing expertise and insight with other engineers.

+ Identifies significant internal and external stakeholders and builds partnerships as part of an influencing strategy.

+ Demonstrates mastery in their area of expertise and are recognized as an authority on it by their peers and leaders.

+ Evaluates and generates options that scan the entire spectrum of software reliability, ease of adoption, scalability, operational ease, and skillset availability.

+ Mentors and champions cultural as well as process change.

+ Knowledge of agile development methodologies.

+ Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships.

+ Life-long learner, process improver.

What You Will Be Doing

Daily Responsibilities

+ The Software Engineer will help Enhance and support the Formworks application. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable functionality in Formworks application. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOPS engineers.

+ Builds, configures, customizes and supports products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.

+ Key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.

+ Leads architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study.

+ Leads teams that develop high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.

+ Champions writing highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.

+ Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and creates a team culture of documenting everything.

+ Drives code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers.

+ Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, QA and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.

+ Scopes effort, identifies risks and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.

+ Foresees and assesses impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.

+ Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects.

+ Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.

+ Maintains knowledge, ensures competency and compliance with policies and procedures, in order to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

+ This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned

You will receive the following benefits:

+ Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

+ Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

+ Vision Benefits

+ Health Savings Account (HSA)

+ Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

+ Hospital Indemnity Insurance

+ 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

+ Paid Sick Time Leave

+ Legal and Identity Protection Plans

+ Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

+ 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

**Posted by:** VMS Sourcing

Specialization:

+ Software Engineering