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🚀 Big Story of the Week
Oldcastle accelerates document processing with Amazon Bedrock
This post explores how Oldcastle partnered with AWS to transform their document processing workflow using Amazon Bedrock with Amazon Textract. We discuss how Oldcastle overcame the limitations of their previous OCR solution to automate the processing of hundreds of thousands of POD documents each month, dramatically improving accuracy while reducing manual effort.
Read the full story🇮🇳 Indian AI & Tech News
🔬 Top Research Paper
A Hybrid CNN-LSTM Deep Learning Model for Intrusion Detection in Smart Grid
arXiv:2509.07208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evolution of the traditional power grid into the "smart grid" has resulted in a fundamental shift in energy management, which allows the integration of renewable energy sources with modern communication technology. DNP3 and IEC104 intrusion detection datasets are employed to train and test our CNN-LSTM model to recognize and classify the potential cyber threats.
Read the paper💻 Top GitHub Repo
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- Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features
- Implementing new AI features to turbocharge our customers’ daily tasks
- Improving the performance and scalability of our GraphQL and REST API
- Improving how we sync millions of sales emails and calendar events each month
- Working with Twilio's API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling features
- Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data
- Improving our Elasticsearch-backed powerful search features
- Improving our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Kafka and Redis
- Building new and enhancing existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and web conferencing providers
- Enhancing our web app with real-time updates powered by GraphQL Subscriptions
- Leveraging the latest AI LLMs from providers like OpenAI, Groq and AssemblyAI
Help manage our ever growing data processing needs…
- Billions of Mongo documents
- Millions and millions of rows of PostgreSQL data
- 55 Terabytes of logs / month
- 500 billion OTEL spans over the last 30 days
- 10+ million events / day
- Tens of thousands of docker containers
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- Senior 1 & 2 level candidates should have 5+ years of experience building modern back-end systems. Mid-level candidates should have ~3 years of similar experience and be eager to level up with the right opportunity.
- Professional Python experience is preferred but a working knowledge of Python with additional experience in other languages is acceptable if you have a desire to work with Python.
- You have built web APIs that were Internet facing or supported other high volume loads.
- You have hands-on production experience working with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or similar data stores.
- You have experience designing, scaling, debugging, and optimizing systems to make them fast and reliable.
- You have participated in code reviews and provided overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase.
- You care about the craftsmanship of the code and systems you produce.
- Located in the USA (lower 48 timezones).
Bonus point if you have
- Contributed open source code related to our tech stack.
- Led small project teams building and launching features.
- Built B2B SaaS products.
- Implemented features that leveraged AI to deliver unimaginable new product capabilities.
- Worked with complex architectures that support multiple APIs (e.g. REST, GQL, WebSockets) as well as async task and event processing frameworks.
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- 5 weeks PTO + Winter & Summer Holiday Breaks with 2 additional PTO days for every year with the company
- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Paid parental leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision with HSA option (US residents)
- 401k matching at 6% (US residents)
- Dependent care FSA (US residents)
- Our story and team 🚀
Our Values
- Build a house you want to live in -- Examine long-term thinking and action
- No BS -- Practice transparency and honesty, especially when it’s hard
- Invest in each other -- Build successful relationships with your coworkers and customers
- Discipline equals freedom -- Keep your word to yourself and others
- Strive for greatness -- Constantly challenge yourself and others
How We Work Together
- Productivity, Quality & Impact: We don’t track hours.
Who You Are
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Excellent Front-End Developer: Talented front-end engineer capable of building robust web applications with minimal design input, experienced with modern web technologies, including recent experience with deploying React, Next.js, and Tailwind applications.
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Eye for Design: Capable of making polished interfaces and improving on the UI and UX of projects without high fidelity designs
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Comfortable with the Back-End: Clear understanding of how data flows through a web application and capable of reading and writing data in a performant and secure manner. While not a full-stack role with expectations of architecting complex systems, being able to interact with data stores is a must.
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Resourceful & Adaptable: Experience working in small to medium-sized organizations that operate scrappily with limited resources.
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Organized & Detail-Oriented: Well-organized with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Nice-to-Haves
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Interest in and experience with implementing AI to improve processes.
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Experience building and maintaining an internal design system of components.
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Design experience, including proficiency in using design tools to communicate ideas.
Practical Details
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Location: 100% remote, full-time position, from Europe or the US.