Go/Golang Developer - Remote

Role Overview

Contractor role (10–12 hours/week), remote, for experienced software engineers to train and evaluate next-generation AI systems through real-world software engineering tasks. No prior AI experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Work on backend, full-stack, infrastructure, and systems-related engineering tasks.
• Review, debug, improve, and explain code across different technical environments.
• Design and/or evaluate practical solutions involving:
  • APIs, databases, services, integrations
  • Testing and deployment workflows
• Assess and communicate tradeoffs across:
  • Scalability, maintainability, performance, reliability, security, and developer experience
• Write clear technical reasoning (why a solution works and what alternatives were considered).
• Collaborate with the customer team on technical reviews and implementation decisions.
• Adapt quickly to unfamiliar codebases, frameworks, and requirements.

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• CI/CD and DevOps workflows, containers, monitoring, or production operations.
• Frontend experience (React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, React Native).
• Open-source contributions or strong public engineering work; technical writing.
• Experience mentoring, reviewing code, or making architecture decisions.