Go Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Go Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Go AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Go code and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure contributors follow expected quality standards.

You will assess work for code correctness, compile-time validity, runtime behavior, concurrency safety, error handling, readability, maintainability, performance, security awareness, test coverage, formatting, instruction-following, and adherence to project-specific rubrics. You will spot recurring quality issues, communicate updates to trainers and QAs, support onboarding, maintain documentation, and help activate contributors who are not working consistently.

This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your Go quality leadership will help ensure Go training data is accurate, executable, idiomatic, efficient, clearly explained, and aligned with client expectations.

Selection process involves an AI interview, a domain-specific task, and an interview with a recruiter.

Important:
There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you will be among the first experts we reach out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide you with access to future projects available through our expert network.

### Key Responsibilities
- Quality monitoring: Spot-check Go items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
- Code review: Evaluate AI-generated Go code, debugging responses, backend snippets, concurrency examples, tests, API implementations, and technical explanations for correctness and clarity.
- Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers/QAs on Discord about guideline changes, workflow updates, and Go-specific quality expectations.
- Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions around Go syntax, concurrency, error handling, context usage, interfaces, testing, performance, security, and rubric interpretation.
- Trainer/QA activation management: DM inactive contributors, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues.
- Documentation: Create and maintain Go style guides, trackers, FAQs, examples, honeypots, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials.
- Onboarding and training: Schedule and run onboarding/training calls with contributors to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, and Go review standards.
- Risk and security review: Flag insecure, misleading, non-compilable, race-prone, or non-production-ready Go recommendations.
- Process improvement: Identify recurring quality gaps and help build scalable QA processes for Go AI training projects.

### Your Profile
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional software engineering experience.
- Strong grasp of English to follow guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear technical feedback.
- 3+ years of professional experience in Go development, backend engineering, cloud services, distributed systems, DevOps tooling, code review, software QA, or technical mentoring.
- Strong understanding of Go fundamentals such as goroutines, channels, interfaces, structs, methods, slices, maps, pointers, error handling, context, packages/modules, testing, and idiomatic Go style.
- Ability to evaluate Go content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as non-compilable code, incorrect concurrency patterns, goroutine leaks, race conditions, poor error handling, inefficient logic, hallucinated APIs, or incomplete explanations.
- Familiarity with common Go tools and ecosystems such as go test, gofmt, go vet, race detector, Go modules, HTTP servers, REST APIs, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL drivers, GitHub, CI/CD, and cloud-native workflows is preferred.
- Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, engineers, coding mentors, or QAs is strongly preferred.
- Comfortable working in fast-moving remote environments using Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, GitHub, and project management systems.
- Highly organized and able to maintain style guides, trackers, FAQs, onboarding materials, honeypots, calibration tasks, and quality documentation.
- Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, code QA, or rubric-based code review is a strong plus.

🌍 Geographic Availability
This role is available to qualified experts globally. However, as a U.S.-based company, SME Careers complies with U.S. export control and sanctions regulations. Eligibility depends on your country of residence and any applicable trade restrictions. Some projects may have additional language or region-specific requirements.

💰 Pay Rate May Vary Based on Your Location
Your actual compensation will be determined based on your location and local market conditions. See regional job listings for localized pay information, or the application process will clarify your specific rate.

If you're unsure whether you're eligible, proceed with the application—SME's screening will determine your jurisdiction status and applicable compensation.