About the position
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer – OCR/IDP & AWS Integration to join our financial services client based in Johannesburg for a 6-months contract role.
We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer with strong hands-on experience in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) solutions, alongside a solid background in AWS cloud infrastructure. You will lead the technical effort to evaluate, integrate, and scale an OCR/IDP system as part of our enterprise AI strategy.
This role requires a mix of technical leadership, software engineering, and stakeholder engagement, and offers the opportunity to build a team from the ground up to drive this key transformation.
What you will be doing:
- Lead the evaluation and selection of OCR/IDP vendor solutions
- Architect and integrate the selected solution into our AWS-based infrastructure
- Extend the system into broader AI-driven workflows, including document intelligence, summarization, and automation
- Manage stakeholder engagement and align technical deliverables with strategic goals
- Provide technical mentorship and leadership to the development team
- Design scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions leveraging AWS services
- Apply modern evaluation techniques for OCR/IDP tooling to ensure optimal solution performance
What we are looking for:
- Completed IT degree / BSc degree or other related fields
- 5 - 10 years of experience as a Lead Software Engineer or Technical Lead
- Proven experience with OCR/IDP tools and end-to-end projects
- Strong hands-on expertise in AWS Cloud Services, especially:
- EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM
- Solid understanding of solution integration, architecture, and system scaling
- Experience leading software development teams and working across departments
- Familiarity with AWS Textract, Comprehend, and Amazon A2I
- Exposure to LLM-based OCR, document QA, or intelligent decision-making
- Experience with HuggingFace or open-source computer vision models
- Background in implementing or evaluating modern IDP/OCR architectures and frameworks
Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.
Please note that most of our positions are remote however candidates should be residing within the traveling distance as circumstance of the opportunity can change.
Desired Skills:
- OCR/IDP
- AWS Cloud
- EC2
- ECS
- Lambda
- IAM
