Software Engineer, Backend
Mercor
Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion, focused on enhancing AI development through human expertise. As a Software Engineer, you will join a product-driven team to build backend systems that support advanced AI companies, working in a fast-paced environment with a commitment to high-quality code and impactful solutions.
Qualification
- Strong coding fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.).
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
- Bias toward ownership, curiosity, and asking the right questions.
- Ability to break down ambiguity and ship simple solutions to complex problems.
Responsibility
- Design and build scalable backend APIs, services, and infrastructure.
- Collaborate across the stack with product and design to ship features quickly.
- Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to documentation.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and retrospectives.
- Solve real-world customer problems under real-world constraints.
- Contribute to core systems that power training, evaluation, and scaling for leading AI labs.
