Mercor
Software Engineer, Marketplace
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchKubernetesTerraformKafkaMachine Learning
About the role
- The problems are technically demanding and tightly coupled to business outcomes: latency, reliability, throughput, and system quality all directly affect marketplace performance.
- Backend services that power candidate-job matching, routing, and marketplace workflows
- APIs and internal systems for search, eligibility, scoring, allocation, and fulfillment
Responsibilities
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
- Build the systems that determine which candidates are eligible for which opportunities
- Design matching and allocation infrastructure that balance speed, quality, and fill rate
- Develop workflow engines for onboarding, vetting, routing, and placement
- Design backend abstractions that let product and ML teams iterate quickly without degrading system quality
Requirements
- Comfort working on high-throughput APIs, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows
- Ability to translate product and marketplace requirements into clean technical systems
Nice to have
- Experience with search, recommendation, matching, scheduling, or marketplace systems
- Experience supporting ML-powered products or integrating model inference into production systems
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture, queues, caching, and observability tooling
- This role sits on a core decision layer of the product.
- Your work will directly shape how the marketplace operates: which opportunities get filled, how quickly hiring happens, and how reliably the system scales as volume and complexity increase.
Skills
- Python, Go, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Terraform
Compensation
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k Relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Company info
- by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone.
- Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $3 million a day.
- Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement.
- Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team.
- You'll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.
- Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.
- We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
- Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
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