# Software Engineer - Backend

Opportunity SnapshotPay: $50–100 Time per task: 5 hours for trainers and 1.5 hours for reviewers Engagement: Project-based — paid per approved task Commitment: ~15 hours per week Location: Fully remote You’ll need: Hands-on expertise in at least one of Python, Java, Rust, Go, C++, or TypeScript Your tasks: Build challenging coding problems from real repositories, with reproducible environments and verifiers Role Title: Software Engineer - Backend Role Type: Contractor (~15 hrs a week) Location: Remote You’ll create Reinforcement Learning Environments that test a model’s ability to solve real software engineering problems: tracking down subtle bugs, building non-trivial features, refactoring, and optimizing performance. Each task means defining the problem, building a reproducible environment, and writing a reference solution. Scope of Work Create realistic, challenging coding tasks for frontier AI models, drawn from repositories you know well. Design problems that require real engineering skill — subtle bugs, non-trivial features, meaningful performance work — not lookup or boilerplate. Build a reproducible environment for each task. Write deterministic verifiers that accept cor

- **Id**: 4083346
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/micro1-software-engineer-backend-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: worldwide
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T13:46:26Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T13:46:26Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2793
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Freelance & Talent Marketplaces, AI Training Data & Annotation, AI Evaluation & Observability, HR & Recruiting AI

## Company

- **Id**: 13196
- **Name**: micro1
- **Domain**: micro1.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/micro1>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes

## Salary

- **Min**: 50
- **Max**: 100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T18:15:15Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 9; Filings 12m: 9

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early, comp:remote,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T19:42:50Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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