Lead Java Engineer

Company: Shuru Tech

Website: https://shurutech.com/

Experience: 6+ Years

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

Shuru Tech is looking for a strong Senior Java Engineer / Java Lead with 6+ years of backend engineering experience and hands-on expertise in building document parsing and document processing systems .

This is a fully remote role where you will work on scalable backend systems responsible for ingesting, parsing, extracting, transforming, and processing data from multiple document formats including PDF, DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX, HTML, XML, CSV, and scanned documents .

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend applications and microservices using Java and Spring Boot .
• Build and maintain document ingestion, parsing, extraction, and transformation pipelines .
• Extract structured and unstructured information including text, tables, metadata, images, and document properties .
• Handle formats including PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, XML, and scanned documents .
• Work with document-processing libraries such as Apache Tika, Apache PDFBox, Apache POI, iText , or equivalent technologies.
• Integrate OCR solutions for scanned PDFs and image-based documents.
• Design systems capable of efficiently processing large documents and high volumes of files .
• Build asynchronous and event-driven workflows using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging technologies .
• Develop REST APIs for document upload, processing, extraction, and retrieval.
• Handle corrupted files, unsupported formats, parsing failures, and partial processing scenarios.
• Optimize performance, concurrency, memory utilization, and processing latency .
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested production-grade code.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, debugging, and production issue resolution.
• For Lead-level candidates, mentor engineers and drive technical design and engineering best practices.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of backend/software engineering experience .
• Strong hands-on experience with Java .
• Strong experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices .
• Hands-on experience with document parsing, document ingestion, content extraction, or document processing systems .
• Experience with libraries such as Apache Tika, Apache PDFBox, Apache POI, iText , or similar.
• Strong understanding of multithreading, concurrency, asynchronous processing, and JVM performance .
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of data structures, system design, and API design .
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD, Git, and cloud environments .
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable working effectively in a remote engineering environment .

Good to Have

• Experience with Tesseract, AWS Textract, Azure Document Intelligence, Google Document AI , or similar OCR/document intelligence platforms.
• Experience extracting tables, layouts, forms, key-value pairs, and structured data from complex documents.
• Experience with LLM/AI-powered document extraction or Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) .
• Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch .
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience building distributed systems capable of processing large volumes of documents.
• Experience working in a startup or high-ownership engineering environment.