Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
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MercorAI
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United KingdomContractJunior
SalaryUpto $85/hr; $85/hour; $400 per accepted task.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 2+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Required Skills
- RESTful APIsMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Have 2+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Have experience building APIs, distributed systems, microservices, backend platforms, or databases.
- Regularly use AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
- Be able to evaluate model-generated code and identify bugs, edge cases, and architectural tradeoffs.
- Experience working on large-scale production systems is preferred.
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.
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