[Remote] Backend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Great Value Hiring is seeking a Backend Engineer to help evaluate and improve frontier AI coding models through structured technical assessments. The role focuses on using AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks, emphasizing model evaluation rather than traditional software development.
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
- Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic backend engineering scenarios
Skills
- 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
- Ability to evaluate model-generated code and identify bugs, edge cases, and architectural tradeoffs
- Experience working on large-scale production systems
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