Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Work on challenging software engineering tasks across backend, full-stack, infrastructure, and systems-related projects.
• Review, debug, improve, and explain code across different technical environments.
• Design or evaluate practical solutions involving APIs, databases, services, integrations, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Identify tradeoffs regarding scalability, maintainability, performance, reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Communicate technical reasoning clearly in writing, including why a solution works and what alternatives were considered.
• Adapt quickly to new codebases, frameworks, and technical requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong experience in at least one backend or full-stack environment (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Java, C#, .NET, C++, Go, Ruby, or PHP).
• Experience building, maintaining, or reviewing production-level applications, APIs, services, or databases.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including debugging, testing, code quality, and architecture.
• Ability to explain complex engineering decisions clearly and objectively.
• Comfortable reading and reasoning through unfamiliar code or technical requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps workflows, containers, or production operations.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, Angular, or Vue.
• Open-source contributions, technical writing, or a strong public GitHub presence.
• Experience mentoring engineers or making high-level architecture decisions.

About the Company

micro1 is the leading AI data lab for training frontier models and evaluating AI agents. We transform real-world expertise into high-quality training data, evaluations, and feedback loops that improve how AI systems learn, reason, and perform. Our platform identifies and vets top talent through an AI recruiter, enabling high-quality expert contributions at scale.