Software Engineer, Backend
About The Position
As a Software Engineer at Mercor, you’ll join a small, product-driven engineering team building modern backend systems that power critical workflows for some of the most advanced AI companies in the world. You’ll own projects end-to-end, designing, building, and shipping production systems that directly impact customers. From day one you’ll write production-grade code, reason about systems holistically, and make decisions that tie directly to business outcomes. You’ll work closely with product and design, moving fast while upholding a high bar for code quality, scalability, and simplicity. At the end of the process, you’ll be team-matched to where you can have the most impact, on one of the following: Talent platform side – building next-generation tools that automate recruiting end-to-end, intelligently match candidates to roles, and power global hiring with seamless contracts and payments. Applied AI/human data side – partnering with top AI researchers from the AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to create post training datasets to improve foundational model capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong coding fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.).
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
- Bias toward ownership, curiosity, and asking the right questions.
- Ability to break down ambiguity and ship simple solutions to complex problems.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend APIs, services, and infrastructure.
- Collaborate across the stack with product and design to ship features quickly.
- Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to documentation.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and retros.
- Solve real-world customer problems under real-world constraints.
- Contribute to core systems that power training, evaluation, and scaling for leading AI labs.
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k Relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
