Backend Engineer - Document Processing and Workflows
Two Dots, San Francisco, California
The role
We are looking for a Software Engineer with substantial prior experience working with PDFs and PDF-driven applications. PDFs are an odd legacy format: notoriously frustrating to work with, but critically important for understanding people’s finances. Many important businesses that used to run on paper documents now run on PDFs, including bank statements, paystubs, offer letters, and I-20 proof of F-1 visa documents.
This role is a strong fit for someone who has worked at companies that do OCR, and document understanding driven workflows.
You should be pragmatic. You should think less in terms of exploration alone and more in terms of: How will this perform? How will this scale? Is this simple? Is this reliable?
You should be an adept user of machine learning, with enough fluency to reason about model errors. You know what ROC, precision, and recall mean. You can reason through over-selection and under-selection, and compare false positives and false negatives against business needs.