Backend Developer - Fully Remote
Mercor, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
about 2 months ago
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Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$176,800.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Agile Methodology
Artificial Intelligence
Databases
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Distributed Systems
Backend
Api Design
Microservices
Job description
- Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks.
- Review model-generated code for correctness, quality, maintainability, and performance.
- Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes in model outputs.
- Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
- Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic backend engineering scenarios.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance., PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
Requirements
Must-Have
- 2+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Experience building APIs, distributed systems, microservices, backend platforms, or databases.
- Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
- Ability to evaluate model-generated code and identify bugs, edge cases, and architectural tradeoffs.
Preferred
- Experience working on large-scale production systems.
Benefits & conditions
- $400 per accepted task.
- Typical tasks take approximately 1-3 hours after ramp-up.
- No fixed task limits.
- Compensation is tied to accepted work.
About the company
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