A standing pool for software engineers, not a single opening. Join once, and when a project needs your stack you get invited to it. The work draws on systems you have shipped: writing engineering problems with reference answers and judging code for edge cases, complexity and what breaks in production.
What you will do
- Write an engineering problem from a system you shipped, with requirements, constraints, failure modes and a reference answer.
- Grade generated code and designs: edge cases, whether the complexity is justified, whether a test really checks what it claims.
- Flag code that would pass review and still fail in production because of concurrency, scale, error handling or running cost.
What you need
- Professional experience building and shipping software.
- Clear written communication, since most of the work is explaining your reasoning.
- Comfort with unclear tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions.
The pool covers frontend (React, TypeScript, Next.js), backend (Java, Go, Node.js), full-stack, mobile (Android, iOS), embedded and IoT, DevOps and platform, systems and performance, QA and automation, and security engineering. Owning code in production counts more than where you trained.
How pay works
Software engineering projects in this pool have been listed at $70-150/hr, set per project by scope and depth. Each project invitation names its own rate and hours.
How applying works
- Apply with your resume and confirm where you work from.
- Take a short AI interview, about 20 minutes total.
- Your background is checked and you join the software engineering pool.
- When a project needs your stack or specialty, you get an invitation to that project's own listing, which names the rate, the hours and the client. Any hiring decision is made there.
This pool listing itself gives no accept or reject decision. A matching project can come within a week or after several months.
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