Open Source Contributor

Open-Source Software Engineer/Contributor💰 $100/hour

🌍 Fully Remote | Global

⏰ ~15 hours/week | Flexible Schedule

📄 Contract

We’re looking for highly skilled Open-Source Software Engineers to contribute to an AI training project focused on challenging real-world software engineering tasks.

You’ll work with unfamiliar repositories, debug complex issues, implement features, evaluate code, and help improve AI systems’ ability to understand and write production-quality software.

What You'll Work On

• Explore and understand unfamiliar open-source repositories
• Implement and debug front-end and back-end components
• Trace execution and data flow across APIs, services, libraries, databases, and dependencies
• Reproduce bugs and identify root causes
• Implement solutions that fit an existing codebase and architecture
• Write unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests
• Review AI-generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and completeness
• Translate complete coding implementations from one programming language to anotherWho We're Looking ForYou should have strong real-world software engineering experience and a verifiable track record in open source.

Required:

• Public or otherwise verifiable GitHub profile
• Meaningful contributions to or ownership of open-source repositories
• Strong experience in front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, or related engineering
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages
• Ability to quickly understand and modify unfamiliar codebasesRelevant languages include:

Python, Java, Rust, C++, TypeScript, Go, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, PHP, and others.

Open-Source Experience MattersWe’re particularly interested in engineers who maintain repositories or have made substantial contributions to established open-source projects.

Your contributions should demonstrate genuine engineering work—not just documentation edits, dependency updates, formatting changes, or minor fixes.

Be prepared to discuss:

• Repositories you’ve contributed to
• Pull requests you authored
• Issues you solved
• Features or systems you personally built
• Technical decisions behind your contributionsEngagement
• ~15 hours/week
• Fully remote
• Flexible schedule — work when it suits you, including weekends
• Contractor engagement
• $100–$150/hour
• Output-based compensation; payment is based on completed tasks that meet project specifications
• Minimum weekly submission requirements applySelection Process
• Submit your application and screening responses
• Complete a ~30-minute AI interview
• Hiring manager reviewIf you’re an engineer who spends time building, debugging, and contributing to real open-source software, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply with your GitHub profile and tell us about the projects you’ve contributed to.