Sr Python Developer + LLMs + Document processing (XBRL)

Sr Python Developer + LLMs + Document processing (XBRL)

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.

Python

What you'll do

• Drive production hardening of the current proof-of-concept — code quality, performance optimization, and reliability improvements
• Establish foundational infrastructure and architectural patterns (pipeline architecture, logging, configuration management, error handling)
• Develop and evolve the web user interface, ensuring usability and alignment with our engineering standards
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support the tagging workflow
• Work with XHTML and XML processing, integrating with internal reporting systems to handle input data and generate compliant XBRL packages
• Collaborate with the R&D team to understand AI tagging improvements and surface engineering requirements
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and production support

What you'll bring

• 7+ years of software development experience, with demonstrated expertise building production systems
• Hands-on experience developing Python-based document processing pipelines (parsing, transformation, and metadata extraction from structured and semi-structured documents)
• Experience building AI-powered applications with Large Language Models — integrating and orchestrating them in production, including prompt engineering, workflow orchestration, error handling, and result evaluation
• 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 across cross-functional teams
• Bonus points: XBRL, financial compliance or regulatory reporting; investment company operations and SEC filing requirements; Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG); modern web frameworks and full-stack development; 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.