Senior Python Developer / Document Processing Specialist

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Job Summary: Senior or Specialist Python Developer with strong experience in data structuring from documents, working with OCR, regex, and information extraction pipelines. Key Highlights: 1. Dynamic environment with robust processes and governance, high-level technical challenges. 2. Opportunity to influence architecture and technical decisions. 3. Close collaboration with business teams, delivering direct impact on outcomes. **Senior Python Developer / Document Processing Specialist** **About the Opportunity** At **Sciensa**, we combine the agility of a **dynamic and flexible environment**, the stability of a company with **established processes, departments, and governance**, and **high-level technical challenges**. We are seeking a **Senior or Specialist Python Developer** with strong experience in **structuring data from documents**, working with **OCR, regex, and information extraction pipelines**. **Responsibilities and Duties** **Responsibilities** * Develop and maintain Python-based solutions for intelligent document processing; * Structure and normalize data extracted from unstructured documents (PDFs, images, scans, etc.); * Implement and optimize **regex** rules for identifying and validating textual patterns; * Work with **OCR** tools (e.g., Tesseract, AWS Textract, Azure Form Recognizer, Google Vision, or similar); * Build data extraction, transformation, and validation pipelines; * Analyze complex documents (contracts, forms, invoices, financial statements, etc.); * Ensure solution quality, accuracy, and scalability. **Requirements and Qualifications** **Technical Requirements** * Solid experience with **Python** (senior or specialist level); * Proven experience with: * Structuring data from documents; * Advanced regular expressions (regex); * OCR and image/text processing; * Knowledge of PDF manipulation (e.g., pdfplumber, PyMuPDF, PDFMiner, OpenCV); * Experience handling unstructured data; * Strong analytical ability and attention to detail. Nice-to-Have * Experience with NLP (spaCy, transformers, LLMs); * Knowledge of machine learning applied to documents; * Experience with data pipelines and automation; * Exposure to large-scale document volumes; * Experience in Document AI projects. **Additional Information** **Expected Profile** * Analytical and investigative mindset; * Technical autonomy; * Ability to propose solutions and improvements; * Strong technical communication skills. Why Sciensa? * An environment balancing **autonomy and governance**. * Real and meaningful technical challenges. * Opportunity to influence architecture and technical decisions. * Close collaboration with business teams, delivering direct impact on outcomes. **Important:** Contract Type: PJ (Hourly Rate). Working Hours: 8 hours per day. Work Model: 100% Remote. Paid Leave: 15 days after 12 months of contract (to recharge!). Equipment: Provided by Sciensa, based on team/project needs. **Sciensa** is a leading Brazilian InfraTech specializing in digital infrastructure for the financial sector. We deliver solutions across APIs & integrations, Cloud, Data & AI, Cybersecurity, and custom-built platforms. For over 15 years, we have delivered innovation, robustness, and efficiency to clients requiring secure, scalable, and high-performance operations. #### **Our Purpose & Culture** **Why we exist:** To ensure financial institutions can grow using reliable, secure, and innovative technology. **How we do it:** Through collaborative teams, autonomy, continuous learning, and focus on tangible results. **Values guiding our daily work:** Innovation, technical excellence, security, ownership, transparency. #### **Our Values and Differentiators** **Technical excellence and security** across every layer of the digital ecosystem. **Continuous innovation:** We consistently adopt best practices, emerging technologies, and proactively address market needs. **Impact-driven focus:** For us, delivering a system is not enough—we aim for value generation, efficiency, scalability, and trust. **Collaboration and ownership:** We value autonomous teams where each professional contributes meaningfully to decisions, company growth, and client success. #### **What It Means to Work Here** **High-impact projects:** You’ll work on solutions affecting millions of users, critical systems, data governance, and security. **Recognition and autonomy:** You take ownership, participate in technical decisions, and see your contributions deliver real value to clients and the company. **Diverse and collaborative team:** People from diverse backgrounds, knowledge sharing, team spirit, and appreciation for those who share, innovate, and evolve.