Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Python

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.

• 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.

• 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, Cloud Watch, 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.

• 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.