About this role
Mercor is partnering with a frontier AI research lab to engage experienced software engineers with deep expertise in legacy codebase migration and modernisation. We are looking for engineers who have personally executed complex migrations across large, production-grade systems, particularly in financial services, fintech/payments, insurance, healthcare, telecom, large technology companies, and other mission-critical enterprises. Strong hands-on experience with production migrations is the primary qualification.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, review, and evaluate complex codebase migration and modernisation tasks.
- Analyse legacy code, dependencies, APIs, databases, build systems, and infrastructure to determine safe migration approaches.
- Preserve functionality, backwards compatibility, data integrity, security, and performance during migrations.
- Develop tests and validation strategies to identify migration regressions and behavioural differences.
- Evaluate AI-generated migration solutions for correctness, completeness, maintainability, and production readiness.
Relevant Migration Experience
Candidates should have deep expertise in one or more of the following:
- Language/version: Java 8 → 17/21, legacy .NET → modern .NET, Python 2 → 3, PHP 7 → 8
- Language rewrites: COBOL → Java/Python, JavaScript → TypeScript
- Frameworks: Angular, Rails, Django, Spring/Spring Boot, ASP.NET, Next.js/Astro, and other major framework upgrades/replacements
- Databases & ORMs: Oracle/MySQL → PostgreSQL, SQL → NoSQL, Hibernate → jOOQ, Sequelize → Prisma, raw SQL → ORM
- Infrastructure: VMs/bare metal → containers, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures