Backend Developer (Mexico)

Overview

Backend Developer role working on a project with a leading AI Lab, designing and evaluating realistic software engineering tasks as a part-time, project-based expert consultant.

What you'll do

• Design and implement multi-file coding tasks across bug fixing, feature development, refactoring, and testing
• Write clear natural-language specifications and reference implementations
• Develop and extend unit and integration test suites
• Review peer-generated tasks for correctness, clarity, and realism
• Identify edge cases, ambiguities, and potential failure modes
• Ensure alignment between specifications, code, and expected outputs

What you'll need

• Advanced professional written proficiency in English
• 3–7 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Working knowledge of Java, C#, or Go
• Backend or full-stack development experience in production systems
• Experience with testing frameworks (e.g., pytest, Jest, JUnit, xUnit, Go testing)
• Proven ability to debug and navigate large, multi-file codebases
• Experience with code reviews, refactoring, and production migrations

Details

• Location: Mexico, fully remote
• Engagement: Part-time, project-based expert evaluation work
• Consultants are paid per project; hourly rates are estimates based on anticipated completion time
• Consultants control their own schedule, provide their own tools, and may work for other vendors/employers (subject to those vendors' allowances)