Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineer
Date Posted
August 8, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Software Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will own the core systems that bring human intelligence to AI opportunities. You'll work on search, matching, allocation, and workflow infrastructure at the heart of the marketplace, where systems deliver the world’s top experts to staff our cutting edge projects.
- • The problems are technically demanding and tightly coupled to business outcomes: latency, reliability, throughput, and system quality all directly affect marketplace performance.
- • You'll build backend services that power candidate-job matching, routing, and marketplace workflows, APIs and internal systems for search, eligibility, scoring, allocation, and fulfillment, data models and system abstractions for a rapidly evolving labor marketplace, infrastructure for real-time and asynchronous decisioning at high volume, and operational systems and tooling that keep product-critical workflows reliable, observable, and easy to evolve.
- • You'll design matching and allocation infrastructure that balance speed, quality, and fill rate, improve the performance and reliability of APIs serving marketplace decisions in real time, develop workflow engines for onboarding, vetting, routing, and placement, and design backend abstractions that let product and ML teams iterate quickly without degrading system quality.
- • You'll work on high-throughput APIs, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows, translate product and marketplace requirements into clean technical systems, and maintain high engineering standards and a bias toward simple, durable abstractions.
🎯 Requirements
- • Track record of building and operating reliable backend systems in production
- • Strong judgment in system design, performance, reliability, and data modeling
- • Comfort working on high-throughput APIs, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows
- • Ability to translate product and marketplace requirements into clean technical systems
- • High engineering standards and a bias toward simple, durable abstractions
🏖️ 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
- • Free Equinox membership
- • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- • Health, Dental, Vision insurance
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About Mercor Inc.
Mercor Inc. operates an AI-driven hiring marketplace that matches companies with global engineering, finance, and operations talent. Its platform uses machine-learning models to screen résumés, conduct automated interviews, and rank candidates, enabling employers to hire pre-vetted contractors or full-time staff within days. Founded in 2023 by former MIT researchers, the San Francisco-based company serves startups and Fortune 500 clients, handling sourcing, payroll, and compliance across 25 countries. Revenue comes from placement fees and ongoing markups on contractor rates, while talent access roles remotely in software development, data science, sales, and product management.
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