Remote Open-Source Engineer (Contract) | 15h/Week, Flexible

Zekai; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking highly skilled Open-Source Software Engineers to contribute to an AI training project. You will work on software development, repository exploration, debugging, system architecture, and code evaluation across front-end and back-end systems.

Candidates should own or have meaningful contributions to open-source repositories and be ready to discuss personal work, pull requests, and issues. The role involves exploring unfamiliar repos, implementing and debugging components, tracing

Qualifications

• Must have a public or verifiable GitHub profile.
• Must have ownership of or meaningful contributions to open-source repos.
• Experience across front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, tooling, or infrastructure.
• Proficient in multiple programming languages and capable of understanding unfamiliar codebases.

Responsibilities

• Explore and understand unfamiliar software repositories.
• Implement, modify, and debug front-end and back-end components.
• Trace data and execution across interfaces, services, libraries, APIs, databases, and external dependencies.
• Reproduce software issues and identify underlying causes.
• Implement solutions that fit existing project architecture and contribution standards.
• Write unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests.
• Review AI-generated patches for correctness, completeness, security, and maintainability.

Skills

GitHub profile

Open-source contributions

Multiple programming languages

Codebase understanding

Job description

Zekai is seeking highly skilled Open-Source Software Engineers to contribute to an AI training project. You will work on software development, repository exploration, debugging, system architecture, and code evaluation across front-end and back-end systems.

Candidates should own or have meaningful contributions to open-source repositories and be ready to discuss personal work, pull requests, and issues. The role involves exploring unfamiliar repos, implementing and debugging components, tracing