Platform Engineer

RealPage, Inc.; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

RealPage, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer to own the financial data integration and ML classification platform. You will lead two critical systems: a document parsing engine with 280+ ETL processors and a dynamic pipeline orchestration platform driven by ML mappings.

You will design schemas, build ML models, maintain production data pipelines, and mentor one direct report. Expect broad scope: end-to-end data processing from ingestion to API integration in real client environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years Python development with production ML systems.
• Strong experience with NLP / text classification using transformer models (Hugging Face, TensorFlow).
• Deep proficiency with pandas, NumPy, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines that process messy, semi-structured data (Excel, CSV).
• Familiarity with ML model serving platforms (Wallaroo, SageMaker, Vertex AI) and OAuth2-based inference APIs.
• Comfort leading as a technical lead, triaging bugs and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• ML Model Development & Deployment — Build, train, and deploy classification models using ML platforms.
• Pipeline Platform — Maintain and extend the orchestration system for file routing and output generation.
• ETL Engine — Evolve parsing library for complex Excel workbooks and varied formats.
• Data Quality & Reliability — Improve accuracy and audit logging across clients.
• Architecture & Technical Leadership — Guide model serving infra, DB schema design, and API patterns; mentor a direct report.

Skills

Python

ML systems

NLP/transformers

Pandas

PostgreSQL

SQLAlchemy

ETL pipelines

Wallaroo

OAuth2

Leadership

Tools

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

Wallaroo

Paramiko

openpyxl

xlrd

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to own and evolve our financial data integration and ML classification platform. This system ingests hundreds of variations of real estate financial reports — trial balances, rent rolls, budgets, forecasts, aged receivables — from property management companies, automatically detects their format, classifies their structure using ML models, and transforms them into normalized data for downstream analytics.

You will be the primary technical lead across two critical systems: a document parsing engine handling 280+ specialized ETL processors and a dynamic pipeline orchestration platform that uses ML-predicted field mappings to automate data extraction at scale. This role demands breadth — you will build ML models, maintain production data pipelines, design database schemas, and make architectural decisions independently. You will also mentor and manage one direct report.

Responsibilities

• ML Model Development & Deployment —Build, train, and deploy classification models (currently served viaWallaroo) that predict financial field/table mappings from document headers. Extend existing BERT-based question-answering models used for extracting structured data from free-text property descriptions.
• Pipeline Platform — Maintain and extend the configuration-driven orchestration system that matches incoming files to processing pipelines, executes dynamic conditionals, and writes standardized output to downstream templates.
• ETL Engine — Evolve the parsing library that handles complex Excel workbooks with nested headers, multi-tab structures, merged cells, and varied accounting system formats (ARES, GIC, DCS).
• Data Quality & Reliability — Improve prediction accuracy, expand audit logging, and ensure processing integrity across clients and document types.
• Architecture & Technical Leadership — Drive technical decisions on model serving infrastructure, database schema design, and API integration patterns with RealPage's Data Management Gateway (DMG). Provide mentorship and technical guidance to your direct report.

Qualifications

• 5+ years Python development with production ML systems
• Strong experience with NLP / text classification — specifically training and fine-tuning transformer models (Hugging Face, TensorFlow) for document understanding tasks
• Deep proficiencywith pandas, NumPy,SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL
• Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines that process messy, semi-structured data (Excel, CSV) at scale
• Familiarity with ML model serving platforms (Wallaroo, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or similar) including OAuth2-based inference APIs
• Comfort operatingas a technical lead — triaging bugs, shipping features, making architectural calls independently, and mentoring junior engineers
• Demonstrated ability to work across the full stack of a data platform: from raw file ingestion through model inference to API integration

Preferred

• Domain experience in real estate finance, property management, or accounting data (chart of accounts, trial balances, rent rolls)
• Experience with SFTP-based file processing workflows andParamiko
• Familiarity with dynamic code generation / evaluation patterns for configurable data transformations
• Background in document parsing / OCR / intelligent document processing
• Experience with SSH-tunneled database connections and multi-environment deployments
• Prior experience mentoring or leading a small team

Tech Stack

• Python
• Pandas
• TensorFlow
• Hugging Face Transformers
• PostgreSQL
• SQLAlchemy
• Wallaroo
• Paramiko/SFTP
• openpyxl/xlrd
• REST APIs
• OAuth2/JWT

Why This Role

You will have high autonomy over a system that directlyimpactshow financial data flows through RealPage's platform. The ML models you build will reduce manual data mapping for enterprise property management clients, and the pipelines youmaintainprocess real financial documents daily. This is not a research role — it is applied ML engineering where your models ship toproductionand your code runs against real client data. As a Staff Engineer, you will shape the technical direction of the platform and have meaningful influence over how the team grows.

SALARY AND BENEFITS

• RealPage provides a competitive salary package along with a comprehensive benefit plan that includes:
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Retirement savings plan with company match.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Performance-based bonus based on position.

Compensation may vary depending on your location, qualifications including job-related education, training, experience, licensure, and certification, that could result at a level outside of these ranges. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus, and sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role as well as individual performance.

Equal Opportunity Employer: RealPage Company is an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Pay Range

USD $107,200.00 - USD $182,600.00 /Yr.