Platform Engineer

RealPage is seeking a Staff Engineer to own and evolve its financial data integration and machine learning classification platform. The role leads ML model development, document parsing, ETL pipelines, data quality, orchestration, architecture, and technical mentorship for systems processing real estate financial documents at scale.

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