**About Us** Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who truly fit their needs. **Role Overview** We are looking for Senior Software Engineers with deep expertise in **backend development**, **software architecture**, and **complex codebases**. In this role, you'll design realistic software engineering tasks, solve challenging debugging and implementation problems, and contribute high-quality code and technical reasoning that will be used to train advanced AI systems. **CONTRACT:** Contractor **COMMITMENT:** Hourly/Part-time **LOCATION:** Remote **PROCESS:** Application Form -> AI Interview -> Selection **HOURLY RATE:** $100 - $230/h **NOTES**: You need to be able to provide some publicly available work such as GitHub/GitLab repo, PR request, open-source contribution, technical articles, or similar **Responsibilities** - Design realistic **software engineering challenges** involving debugging, feature development, code refactoring, and performance optimization - Develop **reference implementations** and reproducible software environments - Write high-quality code in **Python**, **Java**, **Go**, **Rust**, **C++**, or **TypeScript** - Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software defects - Refactor and optimize existing codebases for performance, maintainability, and scalability - Document technical decisions, implementation approaches, and engineering rationale - Review and validate technical solutions submitted by other contributors - Apply software engineering best practices across diverse programming languages and systems - 7+ years of professional software engineering experience - Strong hands-on expertise in at least one of: **Python**, **Java**, **Go**, **Rust**, **C++**, or **TypeScript** - Strong understanding of **algorithms**, **data structures**, and software design principles - Experience debugging and optimizing complex production systems