Experienced Engineer for Code Debugging and Testing

Budget: $8 - $15/hr

I’m looking for a solid, pragmatic engineer who’s comfortable jumping into an existing codebase and figuring things out quickly.

Most of the work starts from a GitHub PR. You’ll read through the diff, understand what’s actually broken, trace it through the code (JS, Python, or Java), and then rewrite the fix so it’s clean and easy to review.

The important part: you don’t just patch things blindly. You reproduce the issue first, write a test that proves it’s broken (watch it fail), then fix it and make sure everything passes. After that, you leave things in a better state with solid tests in place.

You’ll also set things up with Docker so anyone can run the project and tests the same way without headaches.

This is real-world work — messy code, unclear naming, edge cases — so you need to be comfortable digging through other people’s logic and making sense of it.

For each task, I’m expecting:

a clean fix (PR/commit) a test that fails before and passes after a Docker setup that just works

One important thing — before applying, please watch the onboarding video carefully. There is a non-trivial assessment (not short or easy) to confirm you understand the workflow. In your proposal, mention that you’ve watched the video https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wyk905yemwXeLI6bg1P9uqejqKe4Sx8l/view?pli=1 and are ready to take the assessment — otherwise I won’t move forward. https://prnt.sc/6OPhNvuyDhmX(example questions)

Big bonus if you’ve worked on AI training / coding evaluation projects or anything similar — that experience translates really well here.

If this sounds like your kind of work, send a quick intro, a bit about your debugging/testing experience, and a GitHub link or code sample.

Tech-wise: mostly JavaScript, Python, Java, and Docker. Looking for someone sharp, detail-oriented, and easy to work with.

Start your proposal by answering two questions from the example image