Software Developer

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Senior Software Engineer Backend ( TypeScript Rust)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $45$65/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of scoped features through collaborative engineering teams ensuring alignment with platform and system objectives.
• Design develop test and maintain high-quality services in TypeScript and Rust across the full software lifecycle and CI/CD.
• Build and optimize server-to-server integrations and API layers (REST and GraphQL) for high-traffic applications.
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities into product services and use generative AI tools to enhance engineering productivity.
• Contribute to solution design conduct code reviews and apply best practices for scalable secure and maintainable systems.
• Monitor application performance support defect resolution and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 4 years of professional software engineering experience or a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and 3 years of experience.
• Hands-on production coding experience in and TypeScript on the backend.
• Hands-on coding experience in Rust for production services or performance-critical modules.
• Strong web fundamentals: HTTP semantics cookies headers caching sessions and server-to-server communication patterns.
• Experience building or operating high-traffic consumer-facing web platforms.
• Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience with GraphQL on (schema design resolvers federation).
• Familiarity with web accessibility standards.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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