Technical Assessor (Contract)

Role Overview

As a Technical Assessor, you'll evaluate software engineering candidates after they complete a practical coding exercise. Your responsibility is to determine whether a candidate meets our technical bar by reviewing their submission, conducting a structured technical interview, and documenting your findings using our assessment rubric.

This is a contract, pay-per-assessment role with flexible scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Review candidates' technical submissions before the assessment call.

• Verify that submissions meet the exercise requirements and can be run successfully.

• Conduct structured technical review sessions over video.

• Ask candidates to explain and defend their technical decisions.

• Assess problem-solving ability, code quality, architecture, testing, scalability, and software engineering fundamentals.

• Evaluate candidates' understanding of their own code rather than testing memorized knowledge.

• Complete Betternship's standardized scorecard with clear, evidence-based justifications for every rating.

• Recommend whether a candidate should proceed to the client interview.

• Submit assessment results within the agreed turnaround time.

• Participate in occasional calibration sessions to ensure consistency across assessors.

• Maintain confidentiality of all candidate and client information.

What You'll Assess

Candidates are evaluated across the following areas:

• Correctness

• Code quality and structure

• Testing

• Documentation (README)

• Technical reasoning during the review call

• Software engineering fundamentals

What Success Looks Like

Successful assessors consistently:

• Conduct fair, structured, and objective assessments.

• Ask thoughtful follow-up questions that uncover genuine technical understanding.

• Provide clear written feedback supported by evidence from the candidate's submission and interview.

• Maintain consistent scoring aligned with Betternship's assessment framework.

• Deliver scorecards within agreed timelines.

Engagement Details

• Contract, pay-per-assessment.

• Flexible scheduling based on your availability.

• Remote.