Software Engineer, Python

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🕒 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 Python repositories pinned to specific git commits • Explore repositories and relevant pull-request or issue history to understand subsystems • 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 incorrect 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 on returned tasks

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience • Substantial production Python experience • Ability to navigate large, unfamiliar Python codebases and explain runtime behavior • Fluency in Python internals, including import machinery, descriptors and metaclasses, async and event loops, packaging, and C-extension boundaries • Experience with web frameworks, developer tooling, type checkers, or scientific/numeric libraries is highly relevant • Precise written English • Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling • Must complete identity verification and a background check • Must sign Terms of Work and CIIAA • Must provide a tax form • Must pass a short calibration quiz before task access is granted • Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote and asynchronous work • Payment of $130 per approved task • Expert team leads across US, India, and Nigeria time zones • Access to Mercor Studio • Identity verification, background check, and onboarding support • Referral opportunity earning up to $250 per successful referral • Reasonable accommodations upon request