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JavaScript/TypeScript Developer - Remote
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JavaScript/TypeScript Developer - Remote
Software Engineering (Contractor)
Job Type
Contractor (10-12 hours per week)
Location
Remote
Job Summary
We are looking for experienced software engineers to help train and evaluate next-generation AI systems through real-world software engineering tasks. This role is best suited for developers who can:
- Reason through unfamiliar codebases
- Explain engineering decisions clearly
- Solve practical backend, full-stack, systems, or infrastructure-related problems
No prior AI experience is required. What matters most is:
- Strong software engineering judgment
- Clean technical communication
- Ability to evaluate code, architecture, tradeoffs, and implementation quality
Key Responsibilities
- Work on challenging software engineering tasks across:
- Backend
- Full-stack
- Infrastructure
- Systems-related projects
- Review, debug, improve, and explain code across different technical environments
- Design or evaluate practical solutions involving:
- APIs
- Databases
- Services
- Integrations
- Testing
- Deployment workflows
- Identify tradeoffs around:
- Scalability
- Maintainability
- Performance
- Reliability
- Security
- Developer experience
- Communicate technical reasoning clearly in writing, including:
- Why a solution works
- What alternatives were considered
- Collaborate with the customer’s team on:
- Technical reviews
- Implementation decisions
- Problem-solving exercises
- Adapt quickly to new codebases, frameworks, and technical requirements
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Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Strong experience in at least one backend or full-stack engineering environment, such as:
- Python
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Node.js
- Java
- C#
- .NET
- C++
- Go
- Ruby
- PHP (or similar)
- Experience in building, maintaining, or reviewing production-level applications, APIs, services, databases, or integrations
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including:
- Debugging
- Testing
- Code quality
- Architecture
- Technical tradeoffs
- Ability to explain complex engineering decisions clearly and objectively
- Comfortable:
- Reading and reasoning through unfamiliar code
- Working with technical requirements
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud environments such as:
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps workflows, containers, monitoring, or production operations
- Experience with frontend frameworks, such as:
- React
- Next.js
- Angular
- Vue
- React Native
- Open-source contributions, public GitHub work, technical writing, or strong examples of past engineering work
- Experience:
- Mentoring engineers
- Reviewing code
- Making architecture decisions
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