Backend Code Reviewer & Test Architect (Remote)

AuraOne, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (US eligible)

Contractor position

Job summary

AuraOne, Inc. seeks a Software Engineer - Backend reviewer for a remote contractor track to evaluate production code, debug traces, and AI outputs for real-world correctness. You will reproduce failures, write minimal failing tests, and explain fixes to guide the modeling team.

Responsibilities include grading solutions for correctness and edge cases, documenting recurring issues, and ranking paired solutions with rationale based on a rubric. Strong testing and debugging skills required.

Qualifications

• Strong day-job engineering experience — you can read, run, and debug unfamiliar code for Software Engineer - Backend work.
• Comfort writing concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework. pytest, Jest, or JUnit. Go test, RSpec, or whatever you use.
• Clear written reasoning — your review note has to convince another senior engineer.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.
• Prior code-review or technical-interview-grading experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment for Software Engineer - Backend assignments.
• Grade backend engineering solutions for correctness, style, and edge-case handling.
• Write minimal failing tests that demonstrate the bug a model output missed.
• Compare paired solutions and rank them with a written rationale tied to the rubric.
• Tag failure modes (compile error, runtime crash, off-by-one, security issue) with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures so the modeling team can target them.
• Calibrate against gold-standard reviews to keep inter-rater agreement above target.

Skills

Code review

Debugging

Unit testing

Software engineering

Backend engineering

Software engineering judgment

Tools

pytest

Jest

JUnit

Job description

AuraOne, Inc. seeks a Software Engineer - Backend reviewer for a remote contractor track to evaluate production code, debug traces, and AI outputs for real-world correctness. You will reproduce failures, write minimal failing tests, and explain fixes to guide the modeling team.

Responsibilities include grading solutions for correctness and edge cases, documenting recurring issues, and ranking paired solutions with rationale based on a rubric. Strong testing and debugging skills required.