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Backend Developer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr
mercor
IndiaremotePosted 1 day ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- $85/hour or $400 per accepted task compensation
- Minimum 2+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Remote work availability
- Must have experience with AI coding agents like Cursor or Codex
Role overview
Mercor, a talent marketplace headquartered in San Francisco, is looking for a Contract Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) to work remotely on AI‑driven coding tasks. The role involves evaluating and refining code generated by advanced AI agents, identifying bugs and architectural trade‑offs, and improving model performance in realistic backend engineering scenarios.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Nice to have
- Experience working on large-scale production systems
Benefits
- Remote work location
- Compensation at $85/hour or $400 per accepted task (typical tasks 1–3 hours after ramp‑up)
- No fixed task limits
Additional details
- Company investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey
- Contract position
- Compensation tied to accepted work
- Application Process: Upload resume, AI interview based on your resume, submit form
- Resources & Support: For interview process and platform information, please check (link not provided); for help or support, reach out to (contact not provided)
- PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity
- Originally posted on Himalayas
