Software Engineer

Tier4 Group; Portland (ME); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tier4 Group is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in document processing to build automation systems and generate PDFs from data. This 6-month extendable contract is 100% remote with potential for full-time conversion.

Candidates in Eastern or Central time zones are preferred. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining PHP-based workflows, advanced PDF creation, AWS integrations, and secure data exchange with internal and third-party systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.
• 4–6 years in a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
• Experience with PDF generation, document composition, and document workflows (PDFLib, CC, Adobe, iText).
• Experience in high-volume document generation, transformation, and delivery processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain PHP-based applications for large-scale document generation workflows.
• Build advanced PDF creation with font management, encoding, embedding, and rendering.
• Integrate apps with AWS, internal systems, and third-party APIs.
• Automate address validation, postal optimization, data enrichment, and manifest generation.

Skills

LAMP stack

PDF generation

AWS

APIs REST/SOAP

Document processing

JSON

XML

PDF workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

PDFLib

Crawford Technologies

Quadient

Adobe

iText

Job description

Tier4 Group is seeking a Software Engineer who will focus on document processing to build document automation systems, generate PDFs from data, enhance document processing, and integrate systems for higher volume production. This is a 6-month extendable contract 100% REMOTE role with a strong potential for FTE conversion. Only candidates in the Eastern or Central time zones will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain object-oriented applications using PHP and PDFLib to support large-scale document generation and delivery workflows.
• Build and optimize solutions for advanced PDF creation, including custom font management, character encoding, font embedding, and text rendering.
• Integrate applications with AWS services, internal systems, and third-party APIs to facilitate secure and scalable data exchange.
• Develop and maintain integrations with mailing and data-processing platforms to automate address validation, postal optimization, data enrichment, manifest generation, and compliance-related workflows.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following software engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, technical teams, and project managers to translate requirements into effective software solutions.
• Troubleshoot, enhance, and support existing applications while identifying opportunities for process improvements and automation.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, deployment activities, and ongoing operational support.
• Contribute positively to a collaborative team environment while supporting organizational goals and customer success initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4-6 years of experience developing applications within a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment.
• Strong experience with PDF generation, document composition, and document workflow technologies, including tools such as PDFLib, Crawford Technologies, Quadient, Adobe, iText, or similar solutions.
• Experience working with high-volume document generation, transformation, and delivery processes.
• Familiarity with print-stream technologies and formats such as PDF, AFP, PostScript, PCL, or equivalent document output formats.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including S3, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, AWS SDK, and related technologies.
• Strong knowledge of parsing and processing structured and semi-structured data formats, including JSON, XML, delimited, fixed-width, and legacy data sources.
• Experience developing, consuming, and testing APIs using RESTful and/or SOAP architectures.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently in a remote or distributed team environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with customer communications management (CCM), document automation, or enterprise content delivery platforms.
• Exposure to mail automation, postal optimization, or regulatory/compliance-driven document workflows.
• Experience supporting high-volume production systems with strict performance, quality, and delivery requirements.