Remote Coding Puzzle Solver — Flexible Contract

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a highly skilled Puzzle Solver (Coding) for a global, fully remote contractor role. Pay is $60–$120 per hour for roughly 15 hours per week, with a flexible schedule and weekends optional.

You'll tackle self-contained coding and technical reasoning challenges, explore unfamiliar codebases, implement solutions, and produce reproducible results. Strong competitive programming background, especially Codeforces, is a plus.

Qualifications

• A Codeforces profife is a must
• Strong understanding of common data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to reason carefully about constraints, complexity, edge cases, and correctness.
• Experience debugging unfamiliar code or solving technically ambiguous problems.
• A public or otherwise verifiable Codeforces profile demonstrating meaningful competitive-programming experience is nice to have.

Responsibilities

• Solve self-contained coding, logic, debugging, and technical reasoning challenges.
• Analyze unfamiliar problems and translate their requirements into implementable solutions.
• Select appropriate algorithms, data structures, and problem-solving strategies.

Skills

Competitive programming

Codeforces profile

Job description

Zekai is seeking a highly skilled Puzzle Solver (Coding) for a global, fully remote contractor role. Pay is $60–$120 per hour for roughly 15 hours per week, with a flexible schedule and weekends optional.

You'll tackle self-contained coding and technical reasoning challenges, explore unfamiliar codebases, implement solutions, and produce reproducible results. Strong competitive programming background, especially Codeforces, is a plus.