Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Document Platform

Discernis; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Discernis, based in New York, is hiring a professional Python backend engineer to build and extend the services powering our AI-driven document platform. You will work with the engineering lead and AI/search engineers on ingestion, processing, and retrieval challenges, with room to grow as the platform scales.

You will implement core backend features, APIs, and pipelines for PDFs, Office files, and OCR workflows, improve performance, reliability, testing, and security boundaries, and collaborate

Qualifications

• Professional Python backend experience.
• Experience with Flask, or a similar framework, and relational databases.
• Familiarity with background processing systems such as Celery.
• Exposure to search systems like Elasticsearch or OpenSearch is a plus.
• A habit of improving the quality, performance, and maintainability of the systems you work on.
• Comfort operating in a fast moving, product focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend core backend services that power document ingestion, processing, and analysis.
• Build and maintain the APIs used by our frontend and internal AI services.
• Develop pipelines for PDFs, Office files, email containers, and OCR driven workflows.
• Improve performance across database access patterns and background task systems.
• Strengthen reliability through thoughtful testing, observability, and clean service boundaries.
• Contribute to authentication, authorization, and secure system design.
• Work with our search and AI engineers to support large scale indexing and retrieval.

Skills

Python backend

Flask

Relational DBs

Celery

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Quality focus

Fast-paced environment

Job description

Discernis, based in New York, is hiring a professional Python backend engineer to build and extend the services powering our AI-driven document platform. You will work with the engineering lead and AI/search engineers on ingestion, processing, and retrieval challenges, with room to grow as the platform scales.

You will implement core backend features, APIs, and pipelines for PDFs, Office files, and OCR workflows, improve performance, reliability, testing, and security boundaries, and collaborate