Software Engineering
Sr Python Developer
Improving is committed to building a great place to work by cultivating an environment that fosters professional and personal relationships. We value open communication, personal growth, and shared rewards, which result in sustainable success.
Voted “best place to work” numerous times, Improving strives to create and maintain a culture that exemplifies teamwork, excellence, and fun! We believe this kind of culture encourages both the inspiration and the motivation to achieve amazing things.
What You’ll Do
- Take an AI-powered document tagging solution from proof-of-concept to production, improving code quality, performance and reliability
- Set up the core architecture: pipeline design, logging, configuration management and error handling
- Design, build and maintain Python-based RAG pipelines that process unstructured documents
- Develop and improve the web user interface so it is easy to use and meets engineering standards
- Build and maintain the backend services and APIs behind the tagging workflow
- Process XHTML and XML data and integrate with financial reporting platforms to generate compliant XBRL packages
- Work with the R&D team to understand improvements to AI tagging and identify the engineering work they need
- Take part in code reviews, architecture discussions and production support
What You’ll Bring
- 7+ years of software development experience building production systems
- Experience building Python document processing pipelines: parsing, transformation and metadata extraction from unstructured, structured and semi-structured documents
- Hands-on experience building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- Experience building AI-powered applications and orchestrating LLMs in production, including error handling and result evaluation
- Prompt engineering skills: designing, tuning and evaluating prompts for extraction, classification and document processing
- Experience building web applications and REST APIs
- Familiarity with XML, XHTML and data transformation pipelines
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort with ambiguity in early-stage products
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
- Nice to have: .NET and full-stack development experience; XBRL, financial compliance or regulatory reporting experience; knowledge of investment company operations and SEC filing requirements; a background in scaling systems and performance optimization
Improving welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life, and this is reflected in our largely diverse community of Improvers. Improving is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal opportunities for all employees and applicants. Improving recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
About Improving
Improving is a modern digital services company dedicated to positively changing the perception of the IT professional. We offer innovative solutions through consulting, software development, and training to help thousands of our clients achieve new heights in a competitive and ever-changing market.
As our company continues to grow, we are looking for enthusiastic thought leaders to join our team. Improving has a unique mix of passionate professionals who strive to grow and thrive in new ways. We are committed to establishing and maintaining an inclusive culture that allows all Improvers to bring their authentic selves to work each day. This is why we work hard to build inclusion and diversity in our workplace, so we can all do amazing things and succeed together.
