Fullstack Engineer, Assesment
Mercor · San Francisco, CA
$130,000–$500,000
Jul 13, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend-leaning full-stack engineering role focused on building and maintaining the platform that screens, evaluates, and matches experts in a talent network. Day-to-day work involves designing APIs and evaluation pipelines, integrating AI-assisted scoring into assessment workflows, and shipping candidate- and expert-facing product surfaces. Suits engineers with solid backend fundamentals who are comfortable owning features end-to-end in a fast-moving environment.
Mid level · 3+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,200 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,700–13,300
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'Member of Technical Staff' with no explicit seniority level in the title, hence advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3+ years requirement and scope (owning features end-to-end on a small team) support a Mid-level classification.
The posting lists three office locations: San Francisco, NYC, and London. San Francisco is listed first and is Mercor's primary HQ; the CBSA is set accordingly. The role is explicitly in-person five days a week and is not remote.
Frontend skills (React/TypeScript) appear in the requirements section but are framed with 'comfortable working across the stack… when the product needs it' and 'e.g.' — indicating they are contextual/preferred rather than hard gates.
LLM integration experience is explicitly called 'a strong plus,' placing it in the preferred category.
AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex) appear in the requirements section but are framed as 'comfortable building products using… or similar,' making the specific tools interchangeable and the requirement itself a soft gate; treated as preferred.
No base salary or hourly compensation range is stated in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): API design.
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