Senior Software Engineer - Intelligent Document Processing

Senior Software Engineer - Intelligent Document Processing

Full-Time 59400 - 72600 Β£ / year (est.) Home office (partial)
UiPath

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Design and build AI systems for document processing using cutting-edge technologies.
  • Company: Join UiPath, a leader in automation with a vibrant and inclusive culture.
  • Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
  • Other info: Collaborative team culture focused on innovation and continuous improvement.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact by solving complex problems in a fast-paced environment.
  • Qualifications: 5+ years in software engineering with strong programming skills and cloud experience.

The predicted salary is between 59400 - 72600 Β£ per year.

The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. We're committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power. To make that happen, we need people who are curious, self-propelled, generous, and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving, fast-thinking growth company. And people who care about each other, about UiPath, and about our larger purpose.

Your mission: UiPath's Intelligence Document Processing drives understanding of the documents and messages on which a business runs: invoices, claims, contracts, customer emails. We use frontier LLMs to turn all of that into structured data that automations and AI agents can act on. You'll be building the product that does it: the ingestion and extraction pipelines, the APIs customers build their operations on top of, and the systems that make those models useful, fast and trustworthy at enterprise scale. Increasingly that work is agentic. What you build is what lets AI agents ingest, understand, retrieve and reason over enterprise documents at volume, without giving up accuracy, security or governance. It's a product engineering role with complex systems and LLM-in-production problems underneath it. The same service handles a customer's first ten documents and another's ten million, runs in our cloud and inside a bank's own air-gapped datacentre, and has to be good enough that a business will act on its output. Knowing how well the models are actually doing, and what to do when the answer is 'not well enough', is a large part of the job. You'll write in several languages here, and pick up new ones as the problem demands. We care much more about how you think than about what you've written it in. We're looking for someone who loves building things, learns fast, and wants to own product outcomes rather than tickets.

What you'll do at UiPath:

  • Work with engineers, product managers and customers to design, build and operate the AI systems behind UiPath's document processing products.
  • Build across the pipeline: ingestion, parsing and extraction, indexing and retrieval, and the evaluation that tells us any of it is working.
  • Take features from idea to production and stay with them, measuring whether they actually worked, and improving them when they didn't.
  • Solve genuinely hard problems in concurrency, latency and distributed systems, so the platform holds up under high-volume production workloads.
  • Build for environments we don't control: multi-cloud, on-premises, air-gapped, and under strict security and compliance requirements.
  • Use coding agents as a serious part of your toolkit, and help the team get better at it.
  • Work with teams across UiPath and across locations to innovate and build best-in-class document processing, and occasionally with customers directly.
  • Contribute to our engineering culture: mentor, review, hire, and push back when something isn't good enough.

What you'll bring to the team:

  • A solid track record (5+ years) building and operating large-scale commercial services that real customers depend on.
  • Strong programming ability and the confidence to pick up whatever language a problem calls for.
  • Real-world experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP) and containerised deployment on Kubernetes.
  • Comfort with data at scale: SQL, and the trade-offs between different storage and search systems.
  • Experience working with coding agents, and opinions about them, what responsible use looks like, where they earn their keep and where they cost you, and how you keep evaluating them in an ecosystem that changes every few months.
  • An appreciation for tools that catch bugs before runtime - type systems, tests, and designs that make bad states unrepresentable.
  • A pragmatic grasp of computer science fundamentals.
  • Experience shipping LLM-backed products to production is a strong plus: prompting, evaluation, and everything else that turns a model into a feature people will trust.
  • Familiarity with document processing is a plus: OCR, layout, and the messy reality of documents as they actually arrive.
  • An opinion on what makes good code and good architecture, and the ability to argue it, including against us.
  • You're a builder and a problem-solver at heart.

We value a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, national origin, disability, neurodiversity, military and/or veteran status, or any other protected classes. Additionally, UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights.

Senior Software Engineer - Intelligent Document Processing employer: UiPath

At UiPath, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration in the heart of Manchester. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through continuous learning opportunities and a supportive environment where your contributions directly impact our customers' success. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team that values your expertise and encourages you to stay at the forefront of AI advancements.

UiPath

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We think you need these skills to ace Senior Software Engineer - Intelligent Document Processing

Large-scale Commercial Services Development
Programming (Python, Rust, C#)
Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Containerised Deployment (Kubernetes)
Data Management at Scale (SQL)
Coding Agents Experience
Computer Science Fundamentals