Open Source Contributor

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This is a fully remote position open to candidates based in United Kingdom.

Pay: $100$150/hr

Pay: $100$150/hour

Location: Global fully remote

Job Type: Contractor (15 hours per week)

Schedule: Flexibleyou choose the hours and days you work including weekends if needed

We are looking for highly skilled Open-Source Software Engineers to contribute to an AI training project involving software development repository exploration debugging system architecture and code evaluation.

The work involves creating solving reviewing and validating challenging software-engineering tasks across front-end and back-end systems and helping with translating full coding builds from one particular language into another.

We are particularly interested in engineers who own or maintain open-source repositories or have made meaningful contributions to established projects. Contributions should demonstrate real engineering ability not only documentation updates dependency bumps formatting changes or minor typo corrections.

Candidates should be prepared to discuss specific repositories pull requests issues and code they personally authored.

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

1. A public or otherwise verifiable GitHub profile.
2. Meaningful ownership of or contributions to one or more open-source repositories.
3. Strong software-engineering experience across front-end back-end full-stack systems developer tooling infrastructure or another substantial technical area.
4. Experience with multiple programming languages.
5. Ability to understand and modify unfamiliar codebases.

Relevant languages may include TypeScript JavaScript Python Java Go Rust C C# Ruby PHP or other languages used in substantial open-source projects.

1. Apply to the role and complete the screening questions.
2. Complete an AI interview of approximately 30 minutes.
3. Complete the hiring manager review.

Compensation is output-based. Experts are paid per task that meets the project specifications. The time required to complete each task may vary depending on the experts experience and workflow.

Minimum submission requirements apply. Experts must submit a minimum number of tasks per week.

We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts who are ready to begin immediately. If selected you will be expected to start your first tasks within 2448 hours of completing onboarding.

How to apply

Apply here with your profile. We will then email you a link to complete your application on the hiring platform your application is only considered once that final step is done.