Software Engineer – Backend

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $50 - $100 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend 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

• Design realistic and challenging backend engineering tasks using repositories and codebases • Develop problems involving complex bug fixes, backend feature implementation, API development, system refactoring, and performance optimization • Build reproducible environments for consistent execution and evaluation of coding tasks • Create deterministic verifiers that identify correct solutions across valid implementations and reject incomplete, incorrect, or hard-coded approaches • Develop reference solutions for engineering challenges • Evaluate tasks for clarity, technical relevance, and verifiability • Flag ambiguous or unsuitable problems rather than submitting them • Document task requirements, technical assumptions, and verification criteria clearly • Contribute to Reinforcement Learning Environments designed to evaluate and improve advanced AI models on software engineering challenges

🎯 Requirements

• Strong hands-on backend development experience in at least one of Python 3, Java, Rust, Go, C++, or TypeScript • Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, software architecture, and core software engineering principles • Proven ability to debug complex backend systems, identify root causes, and implement reliable fixes • Experience developing backend features, working with large codebases, and improving application performance • Familiarity with code refactoring, legacy system modernization, and writing maintainable, scalable software • Ability to design reproducible test environments and develop reliable, deterministic verification mechanisms • Experience taking technical features or engineering solutions from problem definition through implementation and delivery • Strong written communication and documentation skills, with ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly • Candidates should be available to begin promptly and start first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding • Completion of screening questions, AI-powered interview, profile review, and onboarding required

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible, project-based contractor opportunity • Approximately 15 hours of availability per week • Fully remote work arrangement • Payments for approved tasks meeting defined project specifications • Flexible task workload depending on task complexity, expertise, and workflow

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