2 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $500k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop backend infrastructure for contract-related workflows, payouts, fraud, and other platform operations.
- Design and maintain systems that provision and deprovision access just in time.
- Build reliable, scalable backend services from ambiguous operational requirements.
- Improve security, reliability, and developer ergonomics across foundational platform systems.
- Collaborate with engineering leads and cross-functional partners on high-priority platform initiatives.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience building production systems at scale.
- Experience with identity, access control, or enterprise access management is a strong plus.
- Ability to work through ambiguous requirements and deliver practical, reliable systems quickly.
- Strong ownership and willingness to work on foundational systems supporting multiple parts of the business.
- Strong backend engineering skills and sound architectural judgment.
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure.
- Generous equity grant vested over four years.
- Up to $15,000 relocation bonus.
- $10,000 housing bonus for employees living within 0.5 miles of the office.
- $1,500 monthly meal stipend.
- Free Equinox membership.
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement.
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- In-person work five days a week at the New York office; San Francisco and London offices are also referenced.
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About Mercor
Mercor builds an expert-powered platform that trains, evaluates, and deploys AI systems for AI labs and enterprises. It operates APEX to assess model performance on economically valuable tasks, and provides services such as custom AI agents and teams of vetted domain experts who encode organizational knowledge into AI. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and works with frontier AI labs and enterprise clients requiring strict data isolation.