Lead Software Engineer (OCR/IDP) | 6-Month Contract | Johannesburg or Cape Town

DeARX


Date: 1 day ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
We are on the hunt for a Lead Software Engineer with hands-on experience in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) tools to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team.

This is a high-impact contract role for someone excited to lead from the front technically and strategically as we bring an AWS-based OCR/IDP vendor solution into our organization. You'll play a central role in shaping and extending our document automation capabilities into our AI-first strategy.

Role responsibilities:

  • Lead the technical implementation of OCR/IDP solutions driving architecture, integration, and team delivery.
  • Assess and evaluate third-party OCR/IDP tools and recommend the most effective vendor solutions.
  • Integrate the selected vendor tools into our AWS ecosystem.
  • Extend OCR/IDP capabilities into our AI roadmap, including vision models, LLMs, and intelligent automation.
  • Work closely with stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned with business needs.
  • Provide technical leadership across a team of engineers, guiding development and code reviews.


Role requirements:

  • 510 years of experience as a Lead Software Engineer/Developer.
  • Strong knowledge and experience in OCR & IDP projects and tools.
  • Proficiency in AWS Cloud Services including:
  • EC2, ECS, Lambda
  • Step Functions
  • IAM & Permissions
  • Proven leadership in engineering teams team lead, mentoring, or senior code review experience.


Nice-to-Have Skills:

  • AWS Textract / Comprehend / A2I
  • Experience with LLM-based document QA, vision models, OCR summarization, and AI-powered decision-making
  • Exposure to Hugging Face and open-source vision/AI models
  • Familiarity with technical evaluation frameworks for assessing OCR/IDP technologies


Ready to lead the way in document intelligence and AI transformation?

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