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Backend Developer Fully RemoteMercor • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Backend Developer Fully Remote

Backend Developer Fully Remote

Mercor • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30+ days ago
Salary
CA$85.00 hourly
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Remote
Job description

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: Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85/hour
Location: Remote

Role 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.

Qualifications

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.

Compensation & Legal

  • $400 per accepted task.
  • Typical tasks take approximately 13 hours after ramp-up.
  • No fixed task limits.
  • Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

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

Resources & Support

  • For details about the interview process and platform information please check:
  • For any help or support reach out to:

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.


Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
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