Software Engineer

🕒 July 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60 - $90 / hour

⏱ Part Time

🟢 Junior

🖥 Software Engineer

👻 Ghost score 24%

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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, multi-step software engineering challenges based on practical development workflows, including implementation, debugging, system configuration, testing, and documentation. • Develop comprehensive reference solutions in Python, ensuring each task is reproducible, verifiable, and supported by appropriate validation checks. • Leverage AI coding assistants as part of your development workflow while evaluating their strengths, limitations, and failure modes on complex engineering tasks. • Review benchmark tasks created by fellow experts, providing detailed feedback on technical correctness, clarity, completeness, and level of difficulty. • Analyze AI-generated solutions to identify implementation errors, debugging challenges, reasoning gaps, and opportunities for improving benchmark quality. • Collaborate closely with AI researchers and engineering teams to refine evaluation methodologies and maintain consistently high technical standards.

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree, PhD, or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or another STEM discipline involving substantial programming and technical problem solving. • Minimum 1 year of professional experience in software engineering, research engineering, applied research, or another technically intensive engineering role. • Strong hands-on proficiency in Python, including software design, scripting, debugging, testing, and writing clean, maintainable code. • Solid experience using Git, integrated development environments (IDEs), and modern software development workflows. • Strong understanding of software architecture, debugging methodologies, and engineering best practices. • Experience using AI coding assistants, prompt engineering techniques, or AI agent workflows is preferred. • Experience with AI evaluation, benchmark development, AI training, or task authoring is highly desirable. • Excellent analytical thinking, creativity, attention to detail, and the ability to solve complex, open-ended technical problems independently. • Strong written communication skills for documenting technical solutions and engineering decisions. • Ability to commit approximately 35 hours per week on a consistent basis.