Principal Software Engineer- Document Understanding

Life at UiPath The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. We’re committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power. To make that happen, we need people who are curious, self-propelled, generous, and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving, fast-thinking growth company. And people who care—about each other, about UiPath, and about our larger purpose. Could that be you? Your mission As part of our team, you will contribute to building and evolving our cloud offering that enables clients to train, deploy and consume Machine Learning models at scale. You'll be part of our Document Understanding platform, creating and improving features that enable users to train custom models with their own datasets and leverage them to split, classify and extract meaningful data from documents. Furthermore, your work will directly impact the scalability, quality, performance, and reliability of our platform, ensuring seamless integration across diverse environments and products What you'll do at UiPath You will develop robust and reliable components, identify bugs and bottlenecks and devise solutions to address these issues You will use your problem-solving skills to develop and build code with performance in mind You will use an engineering centric approach to solve complex problems in the document understanding space You will work with teams across other locations to innovate and develop best- in-class document understanding solutions You will maintain and improve the code quality, organization, and automation, by writing unit tests, integration tests and e2e automations What you'll bring to the team Proven track record (5+ years experience) of architecting and engineering world-class, large scale commercial applications and services. Proficiency in one or more system level programming languages (C#, Java, Python, Rust etc.) and a willingness to learn new ones Experience working with cloud ecosystems such as Azure, AWS or GCP Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other containerization technologies. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and architectural design patterns. Good grasp of multithreading, synchronization, asynchronous, cloud programming. Deep understanding of data structures & algorithms. Familiar with modern engineering practices, including agile development, CI/CD and DevOps. Ability work with globally distributed teams. Effective teamwork, collaboration and communication skills Nice to have: Programming experience with .NET framework, C# Familiarity working with documents and using OCR technologies Familiarity with Windows Presentation Framework Full-stack development is good to have #LI-NB1 Maybe you don’t tick all the boxes above—but still think you’d be great for the job? Go ahead, apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizes—and passion can’t be learned. Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role, the number of hybrid, office-based, and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected. We value a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, national origin, disability, neurodiversity, military and/or veteran status, or any other protected classes. Additionally, UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. To review these and other legal disclosures, visit our privacy policy .