Staff Software Engineer at ABBYY
Belgrade, Serbia (Hybrid)Full-timeR&D (Engineering)Posted 24 days ago
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<div class="content-intro"><p class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw PanoWQ"><span class="OYPEnA">Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.</span></p>
<p class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw"><span class="OYPEnA">Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.</span></p>
<p class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw"><span class="OYPEnA">As a trusted partner for purpose-built AI and intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. </span><span class="OYPEnA">Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, </span><span class="OYPEnA">including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as </span><span class="OYPEnA">DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK.</span></p></div><p></p>
<p><strong>About the role:</strong></p>
<p>ABBYY Vantage is our flagship Document AI platform – a cloud-native, microservices-based product that combines purpose-built AI, OCR, NLP, and direct LLM integration to help enterprise customers extract, classify, and act on data from any document. Vantage 3.0, our latest release, introduces native Azure OpenAI integration, enterprise-grade compliance and redaction, a real-time analytics dashboard, and a growing library of pre-configured AI skills. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY – including Fortune 500 companies like DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R Block – to automate their most complex document workflows.</p>
<p>We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader on the Vantage platform. You will drive the design and delivery of complex, cross-cutting capabilities – spanning document AI pipelines, LLM integrations, compliance infrastructure, analytics, and platform extensibility. Beyond your own code, you will act as a technical multiplier: influencing architectural decisions, setting quality standards, and developing the engineers around you. This is a role for someone who leads through depth, judgment, and impact.</p>
<p><strong>Job Responsibilities:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Technical Leadership: </strong>Drive the technical design and delivery of significant Vantage platform capabilities, from architecture and API contracts through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.</li>
<li><strong>Quality & Standards: </strong>Define and uphold engineering standards for the Vantage codebase – covering code quality, service reliability, performance, security, and compliance – and drive their adoption across teams.</li>
<li><strong>Strategic Collaboration: </strong>Act as a senior technical voice in cross-functional planning with product management, ML engineering, cloud architecture, and engineering leadership; translate business priorities into actionable technical roadmaps.</li>
<li><strong>Platform Improvement: </strong>Lead initiatives to improve Vantage platform health at scale: service decomposition, observability, CI/CD maturity, and developer productivity.</li>
<li><strong>Operational Excellence: </strong>Own high-severity incident response for Vantage cloud services; drive post-mortems and systemic reliability improvements.</li>
<li><strong>Engineering Mentorship: </strong>Mentor Senior and Principal Engineers on the Vantage team; build a culture of technical rigor, shared ownership, and continuous learning.</li>
<li><strong>Technical Innovation: </strong>Evaluate and champion adoption of new technologies – from GenAI model integrations to cloud-native tooling – that strengthen ABBYY's Document AI differentiation.</li>
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<p><strong>Job Requirements:</strong></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying workflows using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps Pipelines</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong command of microservices architecture, distributed system design, and cloud-native patterns at enterprise scale</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Demonstrated ability to mentor Senior and Mid-level Engineers and partner with Engineering Managers on technical direction</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience leading technical design reviews and influencing architectural decisions across team and product boundaries</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong>Desired Qualifications</strong></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience in cloud, preferably using Microsoft Azure (AKS, Storage, Key Vaults, Azure SQL or equivalent)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Track record of delivering production-grade systems that meet enterprise compliance, security, and reliability standards</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Hands-on experience designing and operating workflow-driven systems (orchestration, retries, timeouts, and state management)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="10" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience integrating Machine Learning, Neural Networks or LLMs into enterprise applications and workflows</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Comfort operating across a globally distributed engineering organization spanning multiple regions and cultures</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<li>Private health insurance;</li>
<li>Volunteering Time Off (2 days/ year);</li>
<li>Sports membership: FitPass;</li>
<li>Flexible working hours;</li>
<li>A brand new office, conveniently located in New Belgrade</li>
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<li class="Xp24Nw _bsDhw cgHgbA nxe3IQ _4c44Ng"><span class="OYPEnA">We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.</span></li>
<li class="Xp24Nw _bsDhw cgHgbA nxe3IQ _4c44Ng"><span class="OYPEnA">Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.</span></li>
<li class="Xp24Nw _bsDhw cgHgbA nxe3IQ _4c44Ng"><span class="OYPEnA">To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.</span></li>
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<li class="Xp24Nw _bsDhw cgHgbA nxe3IQ _4c44Ng PanoWQ"><span class="OYPEnA">We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.</span></li>
<li class="Xp24Nw _bsDhw cgHgbA nxe3IQ _4c44Ng"><span class="OYPEnA">With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world.</span></li>
<li class="Xp24Nw _bsDhw cgHgbA nxe3IQ _4c44Ng"><span class="OYPEnA">Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents.</span></li>
<li class="Xp24Nw _bsDhw cgHgbA nxe3IQ _4c44Ng"><span class="OYPEnA">We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity.</span></li>
<li class="Xp24Nw _bsDhw cgHgbA nxe3IQ _4c44Ng"><span class="OYPEnA">"Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.</span></li>
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<li class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw PanoWQ">We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market;</li>
<li class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw PanoWQ">Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK;</li>
<li class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw PanoWQ">We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform.</li>
<li class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw PanoWQ">Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process;</li>
<li class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw PanoWQ">Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.</li>
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<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces="true">ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.</span></em></p>
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