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Principal Software Engineer

Rockville, MD (Job Posting), US💼 Full-time💰 $134,400–$134,400🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and develop industry-leading solutions for unstructured document processing, system architecture, and high-throughput data pipelines to transform raw documents into structured, queryable data.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (System Design & Unstructured Data Processing)

Builds

Scalable, enterprise-grade document ingestion, processing, and persistence systems; cloud-native microservices and event-driven architectures.

Domain

Financial Services / Document Intelligence / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

System design and architecture, Unstructured document processing (OCR, layout analysis, NLP), Microservices and event-driven systems, Relational and NoSQL database design, Cloud-native development, CI/CD pipeline implementation, Performance tuning and optimization, Test automation, Software security

Preferred skills

Mastery in computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures), Full-stack Java development, AWS services expertise (Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, Fargate, Aurora), Graph databases

Technologies

Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, Fargate, Aurora), NoSQL, Graph databases, OCR, NLP/ML frameworks

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend systems from API layer to data persistence; Architect large-scale pipelines for ingesting, extracting, and normalizing unstructured data; Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native solutions; Lead system design for enterprise-grade document and metadata processing.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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