Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) [$85/hr]

About The Role

• Contributors help evaluate and improve frontier AI coding models through structured technical assessments
• The work focuses on realistic software engineering workflows and model evaluation rather than traditional software development
• Spots are limited and filling quickly on a first come, first serve basis

Role Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks
• Review model-generated code for correctness, quality, maintainability, and performance
• Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes in model outputs
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic backend engineering scenarios

Time Commitment

• Sprint based project that runs in 12-24 hour stretches based on client requirement

Good Candidature

• 2\+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Experience building APIs, distributed systems, microservices, backend platforms, or databases
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools
• Ability to evaluate model-generated code and identify bugs, edge cases, and architectural tradeoffs
• Experience working on large-scale production systems is preferred

Compensation

• $400 per accepted task
• Typical tasks take approximately 1 3 hours after ramp-up
• No fixed task limits
• Compensation is tied to accepted work