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.

Work arrangement
Yes