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 target subsystem • Rewrite engineering questions to challenge frontier 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, and Analyze • Document work in the task README • Submit tasks for expert review and address reviewer feedback

🎯 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 is highly relevant • Precise written English • Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling • Must complete identity verification, background check, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, tax form, and short calibration quiz before task access • Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote and asynchronous work • Payment of $130 per approved task • Work performed in Mercor Studio • Expert team leads across US, India, and Nigeria time zones • Identity verification and background check onboarding • Platform access provisioned through Okta • Reviewer feedback and expert review for submitted tasks • Up to $250 referral reward for each successful referral