Backend Engineer | Remote
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Summary
Remote contract backend engineer (10–40 hrs/week, $30–$100/hr) at Crossing Hurdles who creates realistic coding tasks and deterministic verifiers for AI, while also building scalable services and APIs, debugging and optimizing backend systems, and conducting code reviews in languages like Java, Go, Python, or C++.
- Create realistic and challenging coding tasks for AI to solve.
- Build scalable services and APIs.
- Debug and optimize performance of backend systems.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure quality.
Position: Software Engineer Backend
Type: Contract
Compensation: $30 - $100/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week
Role Responsibilities
- Create realistic and challenging coding tasks for AI to solve.
- Implement deterministic verifiers for solution validation.
- Build scalable services and APIs.
- Debug and optimize performance of backend systems.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure quality.
Requirements
- Strong backend experience in Java, Node.js, Go, Rust, Typescript, Python, C++ or similar.
- Track record of building scalable services and APIs.
- Comfort with debugging, performance work, and automated testing.
- Solid code review instincts.
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and foundational computer science concepts.