Go Developer - Fully Remote | Upto $130/task Task based

mercor; India; Remote; INR 14,684,000 - 20,023,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. We are a remote-friendly team enabling Go developers to work on a unique Codebase Q&A project.

This contract role focuses on selecting, understanding, and rewriting tasks from a pre-validated pool of Go repositories, then running a full validation loop and documenting findings. The position requires 3+ years of production Go experience, strong concurrency skills, and precise English writing to craft rubrics and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Go software engineering in production.
• Ability to navigate large Go codebases and explain runtime behavior.
• Fluency in Go concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries and the standard library.
• Precise written English for crafting questions and rubrics.
• Comfort with Git at commit level, containers, and CLI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of Go repositories, each pinned to a specific git commit and arriving with an engineering question, positive and negative rubrics, foils, and a golden solution.
• Explore the repository until you genuinely understand the subsystem in question, including the relevant PR or issue history.
• Rewrite the task's question to challenge frontier coding agents while ensuring it remains well-defined and fairly answerable.
• Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers.
• Run the full validation loop in Studio — Check, Golden, Run, Analyze — and iterate until every stage passes.
• Document your work in the task README and submit for expert review, addressing reviewer feedback on returned tasks.

Skills

Go programming

Go concurrency

Interfaces

Standard library

Git

Containerization

CLI tools

English writing

Tools

Git

Docker

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position

Software Engineer, Go — Codebase Q&A

Type

Contract

Compensation

$130/hour

Location

Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of Go repositories, each pinned to a specific git commit and arriving with an engineering question, positive and negative rubrics, foils, and a golden solution.
• Explore the repository until you genuinely understand the subsystem in question, including the relevant PR or issue history.
• Rewrite the task's question to challenge frontier coding agents while ensuring it remains well-defined and fairly answerable.
• Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers.
• Run the full validation loop in Studio — Check, Golden, Run, Analyze — and iterate until every stage passes.
• Document your work in the task README and submit for expert review, addressing reviewer feedback on returned tasks.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial production Go .
• Ability to navigate a large, unfamiliar Go codebase and explain runtime behavior.
• Fluency in Go concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries, and the standard library.
• Precise written English for crafting questions and rubrics.
• Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling.

Preferred

• Experience with distributed systems, networking, storage engines, or Kubernetes -ecosystem tooling.