[Hiring] Open Source Contributor @24-MAG

Role Description

We are sharing a specialised consulting opportunity for experienced open-source software engineers with strong expertise in repository exploration, debugging, architecture, code review, testing, and multi-language development to contribute to an advanced AI training and software-engineering evaluation project.

Selected professionals will create, solve, review, and validate challenging engineering tasks across front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, infrastructure, and developer-tooling environments. The role requires meaningful open-source contributions, the ability to navigate unfamiliar repositories quickly, and strong judgement around correctness, security, maintainability, and architectural fit.

Qualifications

• Public or otherwise verifiable GitHub profile
• Meaningful ownership of or contributions to one or more open-source repositories
• Strong software-engineering experience across front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, developer tooling, infrastructure, or another substantial technical area
• Ability to understand and modify unfamiliar codebases
• Strong debugging, repository-navigation, code-review, and testing skills
• Experience with multiple programming languages
• Relevant technologies may include TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Rust, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, or comparable languages
• Strong understanding of maintainable software architecture
• Ability to evaluate code for correctness, security, and maintainability
• Experience translating implementations between programming languages is valuable
• Candidates should be prepared to discuss specific repositories, issues, pull requests, and code they personally authored

Requirements

• Explore unfamiliar repositories and understand architecture, dependencies, modules, services, and contribution conventions
• Implement and modify functionality across front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, or infrastructure components
• Work within established coding and architectural standards
• Review issues, pull requests, and existing implementations before making changes
• Validate behaviour across affected components
• Reproduce software issues and trace execution and data flow to identify root causes
• Analyse interactions across APIs, services, libraries, databases, and external dependencies
• Assess architectural fit, maintainability, and downstream impact of proposed changes
• Write or review unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests
• Ensure fixes are robust and do not introduce regressions
• Work across multiple programming languages and ecosystems
• Translate implementations between languages where required while preserving intended behaviour
• Review AI-generated patches for correctness, completeness, security, and maintainability
• Identify fragile or unnecessarily complex implementations
• Provide structured technical feedback and recommend stronger approaches
• Discuss specific repositories, pull requests, issues, and code personally authored
• Demonstrate substantive open-source engineering contributions beyond documentation, dependency updates, formatting, or minor corrections
• Explain prior design and implementation decisions clearly
• Collaborate remotely with engineers and project stakeholders
• Document important technical and validation decisions

Benefits

• Part-time independent contractor engagement
• Fully remote and open globally
• Expected commitment: approximately 15 hours per week
• Flexible schedule; contributors choose their working hours and days, including weekends if preferred
• Displayed compensation range: $100–$150/hour
• Actual compensation structure is output-based, with payment made per task that meets project specifications
• Task completion time may vary depending on experience and workflow
• Minimum weekly submission requirements apply; the source does not specify the exact number of required tasks
• Work will involve open-source software development, debugging, architecture analysis, testing, code translation, and AI-generated patch evaluation
• Roles are typically filled within approximately 48 hours
• Selected experts are expected to begin initial tasks within approximately 24–48 hours after onboarding
• Project scope, repositories, languages, and evaluation standards may evolve depending on project requirements
• Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, private repository, software organisation, or other third party