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Software Engineering Roles at Mercor 🇺🇸-🇮🇳-🇬🇧-🇨🇦-🇦🇺-🇳🇿
Mercor is hiring for several remote software engineering roles. All positions are remote and asynchronous.
For more details, see the comprehensive August guide on the mercor_ai sub.
Software Engineer - US
- Salary: $50-85/hr
- Apply Here
- Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience (professional or open-source) in Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Go.
- Hands-on experience writing unit tests in at least one of the above languages.
- Have contributed to complex open-source projects (strong experience required).
- Comfortable working with Docker and containerized environments.
Software Engineer - India
- Salary: $20-45/hr
- Apply Here
- Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience (professional or open-source) in Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Go.
- Hands-on experience writing unit tests in at least one of the above languages.
- Have contributed to complex open-source projects (strong experience required).
- Comfortable working with Docker and containerized environments.
Software Engineer - Performance Optimization Task Author
- Salary: $75-100/hr
- Location: US/UK/CA/AU/NZ
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- Requirements:
- Expertise in systems, optimization, and performance testing in languages such as C, C++, Rust, Java, Python.
- Familiarity with performance benchmarking methodologies, profiling tools, and CI environments
- Experience integrating performance tests, automation pipelines, or data collection frameworks
- Strong debugging and code-review abilities within complex systems contexts
Software Engineer — Code Task Author
- Salary: $75-100/hr
- Location: US/UK/CA/AU/NZ
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- Requirements:
- Proficiency in at least 1 of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Rust, C, C++.
- Strong open-source contributions, ideally across large or actively maintained GitHub repositories
- Proven experience reproducing, debugging, and resolving software bugs in complex systems
- Solid understanding of software testing (unit, integration, regression) and CI pipelines
- Experience writing clean, self-contained bug-fix patches with traceable context (e.g. linked issues)
Software Engineer - Multilingual Bug-Fix
- Salary: $75-100/hr
- Location: US/UK/CA/AU/NZ
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- Requirements:
- Proficiency in at least 1 of the following languages: C, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Ruby, Rust
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects involving real-world bug fixes
- Experience with large-scale codebases and collaborative development via Git/GitHub
- Demonstrated expertise in debugging, testing, and patch-based software fixes
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, unit and integration testing practices
- Ability to read, interpret, and triage real-world issue reports and pull requests