Software Engineer, C - Codebase Q&A

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🕒 September 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130 / year

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Weekday (YC W21)

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • HR Tech • SaaS

Weekday is a modern recruitment platform that combines AI technologies with a vast database of potential candidates, aiming to streamline the hiring process for companies in India. They offer various services, including a proactive outreach approach that helps employers connect with top talent, as well as tools for candidates to easily apply for jobs. Weekday's emphasis on candidate engagement through multiple channels, including email, WhatsApp, and phone calls, sets it apart in the competitive landscape of recruitment agencies.

📋 Description

• Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of C repositories pinned to specific git commits • Explore repositories and relevant pull request or issue history to understand subsystems • Rewrite task questions to challenge advanced coding agents while remaining well-defined • Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible but incorrect answers • Run the full Studio validation loop: Check, Golden, Run, Analyze • Document work in task READMEs and submit tasks for expert review • Address reviewer feedback on returned tasks • Build codebase-exploration tasks for reinforcement-learning environments that train AI agents to reason about unfamiliar software repositories

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial production C • Ability to navigate large, unfamiliar C codebases and explain runtime behavior • Comfort with preprocessor-heavy builds, platform conditionals, manual memory management, and autotools/CMake/Meson build graphs • Experience with databases, cryptography, networking protocols, or systems programming highly relevant • Ability to use debuggers, sanitizers, tracing, and profilers • Precise written English • Identity verification, background check, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, tax form, and passing a calibration quiz required before task access • Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a technical assessment or provide additional information

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote and asynchronous work • Payment of $130 per approved task • Expert team leads across US, India, and Nigeria time zones • Work performed in Studio • Onboarding and platform access through Okta • Every task reviewed by a second engineer and super reviewer before acceptance • Reasonable accommodations upon request