Mercor

Software Engineer, Platform

Mercor
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New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

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

201-500 employees

We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. We're also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.

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