Kotlin Engineer

SME Careers is seeking Kotlin Engineers to help evaluate and improve advanced AI systems on Kotlin programming, software engineering reasoning, and architecture-focused development tasks.

This remote contract opportunity focuses on:

• Kotlin code evaluation
• AI-generated solution review
• Software engineering reasoning
• Architecture analysis
• Technical content creation
• AI training workflows

Contributors will help improve how frontier AI systems understand, generate, debug, and explain Kotlin code across Android and backend development environments.

This is part of SME Careers’ expert network program for future AI training and evaluation projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and evaluate AI-generated Kotlin solutions for:

  • Technical correctness
  • Reasoning quality
  • Prompt adherence
  • Code clarity
  • Kotlin best practices

• Create and refine:

  • Kotlin-focused AI training prompts
  • Technical explanations
  • Model solutions
  • Coding scenarios

• Identify:

  • Logic errors
  • Incorrect assumptions
  • Poor architectural decisions
  • Non-idiomatic Kotlin patterns
  • Concurrency mistakes
  • Null safety issues

• Evaluate and compare AI-generated responses based on:

  • Correctness
  • Efficiency
  • Maintainability
  • Architectural trade-offs
  • Kotlin idiomatic quality

• Assess AI performance across topics such as:

  • Kotlin coroutines
  • Null safety
  • Functional programming idioms
  • Android architecture
  • Backend services
  • Ktor
  • Android Jetpack
  • Software architecture
  • Debugging and code review

• Test AI models for:

  • Reliability
  • Technical consistency
  • Biases
  • Hallucinations
  • Faulty reasoning

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on Kotlin development experience

• Strong understanding of:

  • Kotlin null safety
  • Coroutines
  • Functional programming concepts
  • Kotlin idioms

• Professional software engineering experience using Kotlin in:

  • Android applications
  • Backend systems

• Bachelor’s degree in:

  • Computer Science
  • Software Engineering
  • Related technical disciplines

• Strong ability to:

  • Evaluate software architecture decisions
  • Review production-quality Kotlin code
  • Explain technical concepts clearly

• Experience using LLMs for:

  • Coding assistance
  • Debugging
  • Code review workflows

• Excellent English writing and communication skills

• Minimum C1 English proficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with:

  • Ktor
  • Android Jetpack
  • Advanced coroutine workflows
  • Production mobile/backend systems

• Open-source Kotlin contributions

• Competitive programming experience

• AI training or AI evaluation experience

• Experience reviewing:

  • Mobile application logic
  • Backend architecture
  • System design decisions

Additional Information

• No immediate active project
• Qualified experts will join SME Careers’ expert network for future opportunities
• Flexible remote work schedule
• Weekly payments after approved work
• Referral bonus opportunities available

About SME Careers

SME Careers is an AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate focused on improving frontier AI systems through expert evaluation and software engineering training workflows.

The company partners with major AI labs and foundation model developers to improve coding accuracy, reasoning quality, and technical communication in advanced AI systems.