Remote | Software Engineer — $30–$100/hour
24-MAG · New York, New York, United States · remote
We are sharing a specialised consulting opportunity for experienced Software Engineers with strong backend expertise, scalable service development, debugging, automated testing, feature implementation, and codebase optimisation to contribute to advanced AI training and software-engineering evaluation projects.
Selected professionals will create realistic and technically challenging coding tasks, develop reference implementations and deterministic verifiers, and apply practical software-engineering judgement to feature development, bug fixing, refactoring, performance optimisation, and testing. No prior AI experience is required.
Key Responsibilities
Coding Task Development
- Create realistic software-engineering tasks involving feature implementation and bug fixes
- Design challenges that reflect professional backend-development scenarios
- Define clear technical requirements, constraints, and expected behaviour
- Ensure tasks are sufficiently complex to evaluate engineering reasoning
- Apply practical software-development experience throughout task creation
Backend Engineering & Feature Implementation
- Work across Java, Node.js, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Python, C++, or comparable technologies
- Develop and evaluate scalable backend services and APIs
- Implement complex features within established codebases
- Apply sound algorithms, data structures, and computer-science fundamentals
- Maintain strong standards for correctness, maintainability, and performance
Debugging, Refactoring & Performance
- Identify and resolve software defects and system bottlenecks
- Diagnose unexpected behaviour across complex applications
- Refactor existing code to improve structure and maintainability
- Optimise implementation performance where required
- Evaluate trade-offs between reliability, complexity, scalability, and efficiency
Deterministic Verification & Testing
- Develop deterministic verifiers for coding tasks
- Ensure verifiers accept reasonable valid solutions and reject incorrect implementations
- Design automated tests covering expected behaviour and edge cases
- Diagnose flaky or unreliable test behaviour
- Apply strong testing strategy and code-review judgement across assignments
Technical Evaluation & Quality Review
- Review software-engineering outputs for technical accuracy and completeness
- Assess implementation quality against task specifications
- Identify weak reasoning, incomplete fixes, or inappropriate engineering approaches
- Provide precise technical feedback on submitted solutions
- Maintain consistent quality standards across repeated evaluation workflows
Ideal Profile
- Strong professional backend software-engineering experience
- Expertise in one or more of Java, Node.js, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Python, C++, or similar languages
- Track record of building scalable services and APIs
- Strong debugging and software-troubleshooting capabilities
- Experience identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks
- Proven ability to implement complex features in established applications
- Experience refactoring large or evolving codebases
- Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures
- Solid automated-testing and code-review instincts
- Experience designing test strategies or maintaining large test suites is particularly valuable
- Ability to diagnose flaky tests and improve testing standards
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Clear technical written communication
- Ability to work independently in a flexible remote environment
- No prior AI-training or model-evaluation experience is required
Engagement Details
- Independent contractor engagement
- Fully remote
- Expected commitment: approximately 15 hours per week
- Flexible schedule across weekdays or weekends
- Displayed compensation range: $30–$100/hour
- Actual compensation structure is output-based, with payment made per task that meets project specifications
- Time required per task may vary depending on experience and workflow
- Minimum weekly submission requirements apply; the source does not specify the exact number of required tasks
- Selection may include an approximately 30-minute AI interview, a tentative technical assessment, and hiring-manager review
- Interview, assessment, and project work must be completed without outside assistance
- Roles are typically filled within approximately 48 hours
- Selected contributors should be prepared to begin initial tasks within approximately 24–48 hours after onboarding
- Work will involve coding-task development, feature implementation, debugging, refactoring, deterministic verification, and technical evaluation
- Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, organisation, or other third party
About the Platform
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