Backend Developer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

Role overview

Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) — fully remote contract role.

You will use frontier AI coding agents to complete backend engineering tasks and review/evaluate the generated code for correctness, quality, and performance.

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 strengths/weaknesses
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic backend engineering scenarios
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Experience building APIs, distributed systems, microservices, backend platforms, or databases
• Regular use of AI coding agents (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar)
• Ability to evaluate model-generated code and identify bugs, edge cases, and architectural tradeoffs

Preferred

• Experience working on large-scale production systems

Compensation

• $85/hour
• $400 per accepted task
• Typical task duration: ~1–3 hours after ramp-up
• No fixed task limits; compensation is tied to accepted work