Go/Golang Developer - Remote

Role Overview

Contract software engineering role (10–12 hours/week, remote) to help train and evaluate next-generation AI systems through real-world software engineering tasks.

Responsibilities

• Work on practical engineering tasks across backend, full-stack, systems, and infrastructure projects.
• Review, debug, improve, and explain code across different technical environments.
• Design or evaluate solutions involving APIs, databases, services, integrations, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Analyze and communicate tradeoffs across scalability, maintainability, performance, reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Write clear technical explanations of why solutions work and what alternatives were considered.
• Collaborate with the customer’s team on technical reviews and implementation decisions.
• Adapt quickly to new codebases, frameworks, and technical requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong experience in at least one backend/full-stack environment, including Go/Golang (as well as options such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Java, C#, .NET, C++, Ruby, PHP, etc.).
• Experience building, maintaining, or reviewing production-level applications, APIs, services, databases, or integrations.
• Strong fundamentals in debugging, testing, code quality, architecture, and technical tradeoffs.
• Ability to explain complex engineering decisions clearly and objectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud experience: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• CI/CD, DevOps workflows, containers, monitoring, or production operations.
• Frontend experience with React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, or React Native.
• Open-source contributions, public GitHub, or technical writing.
• Experience mentoring engineers, conducting reviews, or making architecture decisions.