Software Engineer, Go

🕒 September 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of Go repositories pinned to specific git commits • Explore repositories and relevant pull-request or issue history to understand the subsystem • Rewrite engineering questions to challenge coding agents while remaining well-defined and answerable • Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers • Run the full validation loop in Mercor Studio: Check, Golden, Run, Analyze • Document work in the task README • Submit tasks for expert review and address reviewer feedback • Build datasets for AI agents to explore and reason about unfamiliar production Go repositories

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience • Substantial production Go experience • Ability to navigate large, unfamiliar Go codebases and explain runtime behavior • Fluency in Go concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries, and the standard library • Comfort reading generated code and build tooling • Experience with distributed systems, networking, storage engines, or Kubernetes-ecosystem tooling highly relevant • Precise written English • Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling • Identity verification and background check • Signed Terms of Work and CIIAA • Tax form • Passing a short calibration quiz before task access is granted • Resume or relevant technical background • May be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote, asynchronous work • Payment of $130 per approved task • Expert team leads across US, India, and Nigeria time zones • Identity verification, background check, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, tax form, and calibration quiz required for onboarding • Tasks reviewed by a second engineer and a super reviewer before acceptance • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Referral opportunity earning up to $250 per successful referral