Senior Python Developer

Xident; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Xident is seeking a senior Python developer to own the Python services behind document verification, including OCR, face matching, and job orchestration. The role blends backend engineering with machine-learning adjacent systems on GPU infrastructure to process identity documents.

You will maintain the OCR pipeline, build face-matching services with 512‑dim embeddings, and develop queue-based workload orchestration, focusing on reliability and performance of the document-processing stack.

Qualifications

• Senior-level Python development experience.
• Experience building or operating production backend services.
• Familiarity with OCR and document-processing pipelines.
• Experience with face matching, embeddings, or related computer-vision systems.
• Ability to work with asynchronous job queues and GPU-backed workloads.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize the Python OCR pipeline using a vision-language model for document text extraction.
• Build and operate face-matching services using InsightFace and 512-dimensional embeddings.
• Develop job orchestration for verification workloads using a queue system.
• Support and improve services deployed on GPU infrastructure.
• Take ownership of the reliability and performance of document-processing components.

Skills

Senior Python

Backend systems

OCR pipelines

Face matching

GPU workloads

Tools

InsightFace

River

docling VLM

Job description

Role overview

Own the Python services behind document verification, including OCR, face matching, and job orchestration. The work combines backend engineering with machine-learning-adjacent systems, running on GPU infrastructure to process identity documents and verification tasks.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize the Python OCR pipeline using a vision-language model for document text extraction.
• Build and operate face-matching services using InsightFace and 512-dimensional embeddings.
• Develop job orchestration for verification workloads using a queue system.
• Support and improve services deployed on GPU infrastructure.
• Take ownership of the reliability and performance of document-processing components.

Requirements

• Senior-level Python development experience.
• Experience building or operating production backend services.
• Familiarity with OCR and document-processing pipelines.
• Experience with face matching, embeddings, or related computer-vision systems.
• Ability to work with asynchronous job queues and GPU-backed workloads.

Nice to have

• Experience with docling VLM, InsightFace, or River.

Benefits and work setup

• Full-time role, remote in the US or Europe.
• Advertised salary range: $160,000–$210,000.