Remote Backend Code Reviewer for AI Solutions

AuraOne; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

AuraOne is seeking a Software Engineer - Backend for a remote engineering review track. You will evaluate production code, reproduce failures, and write tests that illustrate issues to guide improvements.

This contractor role highlights debugging, test-writing, and clear technical reasoning to support model quality. The position requires strong backend skills, the ability to read and debug unfamiliar code, and reliable async availability of at least 10 hours per week.

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

Unit testing

Debugging

Backend engineering

Software engineering

Async availability

Tools

pytest

Jest

JUnit

Go test

RSpec

Job description

AuraOne is seeking a Software Engineer - Backend for a remote engineering review track. You will evaluate production code, reproduce failures, and write tests that illustrate issues to guide improvements.

This contractor role highlights debugging, test-writing, and clear technical reasoning to support model quality. The position requires strong backend skills, the ability to read and debug unfamiliar code, and reliable async availability of at least 10 hours per week.