Remote Backend Engineer: AI Coding Agent Tasks

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 96,432 - 137,760; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is looking for a Backend Engineer to utilize frontier AI coding agents for complex engineering tasks. This remote role involves reviewing model-generated code and ensuring its quality, maintainability, and performance. Ideal candidates will have 2+ years of backend engineering experience, proficient in building APIs and familiar with AI coding agents.

The compensation is set at $85/hour with flexible task limits, aiming for tasks to take 1–3 hours on average. Join us in enhancing AI model performance.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Experience building APIs, distributed systems, microservices, backend platforms, or databases.
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated code for correctness, quality, maintainability, and performance.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Skills

Backend engineering

API development

Distributed systems

Microservices

AI coding agents

Job description

Mercor is looking for a Backend Engineer to utilize frontier AI coding agents for complex engineering tasks. This remote role involves reviewing model-generated code and ensuring its quality, maintainability, and performance. Ideal candidates will have 2+ years of backend engineering experience, proficient in building APIs and familiar with AI coding agents.

The compensation is set at $85/hour with flexible task limits, aiming for tasks to take 1–3 hours on average. Join us in enhancing AI model performance.