Job Summary:
RealPage, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the development of their financial data integration and machine learning classification platform. The role involves building and deploying ML models, maintaining data pipelines, and making architectural decisions while mentoring a direct report.
Responsibilities:
• ML Model Development & Deployment — Build, train, and deploy classification models (currently served via Wallaroo ) that predict financial field/table mappings from document headers. Extend existing BERT-based question-answering models used for extracting structured data from free-text property descriptions.
• Pipeline Platform — Maintain and extend the configuration-driven orchestration system that matches incoming files to processing pipelines, executes dynamic conditionals, and writes standardized output to downstream templates.
• ETL Engine — Evolve the parsing library that handles complex Excel workbooks with nested headers, multi-tab structures, merged cells, and varied accounting system formats (ARES, GIC, DCS).
• Data Quality & Reliability — Improve prediction accuracy, expand audit logging, and ensure processing integrity across clients and document types.
• Architecture & Technical Leadership — Drive technical decisions on model serving infrastructure, database schema design, and API integration patterns with RealPage's Data Management Gateway (DMG). Provide mentorship and technical guidance to your direct report.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years Python development with production ML systems
• Strong experience with NLP / text classification — specifically training and fine-tuning transformer models (Hugging Face, TensorFlow) for document understanding tasks
• Deep proficiency with pandas, NumPy, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL
• Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines that process messy, semi-structured data (Excel, CSV) at scale
• Familiarity with ML model serving platforms (Wallaroo, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or similar) including OAuth2-based inference APIs
• Comfort operating as a technical lead — triaging bugs, shipping features, making architectural calls independently, and mentoring junior engineers
• Demonstrated ability to work across the full stack of a data platform: from raw file ingestion through model inference to API integration
Preferred:
• Domain experience in real estate finance, property management, or accounting data (chart of accounts, trial balances, rent rolls)
• Experience with SFTP-based file processing workflows and Paramiko
• Familiarity with dynamic code generation / evaluation patterns for configurable data transformations
• Background in document parsing / OCR / intelligent document processing
• Experience with SSH-tunneled database connections and multi-environment deployments
• Prior experience mentoring or leading a small team
Company:
RealPage is the leading global provider of AI-enabled software platforms to the real estate industry. Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Richardson, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.