Senior Product Engineer

Senior Product Engineer

Engineering

Prolific

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.

The role

We’re looking for Senior Software Engineers with a ‘product builder’ mind-set to join our team and take a pivotal role in the development and guidance of our product. As a ‘t-shaped’ engineer, you will bring a broad practical knowledge across various areas of software development, complementing and supporting our growing team whilst likely having a deeper specialism in front or backend. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your existing skills, experience, and knowledge to significantly influence the trajectory of our product as we aim to revolutionize research.

What you’ll bring to the role

Deep understanding of modern web applications

Experience building Typescript/Javascript applications and using NoSQL databases

Experience using Python

Knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture

Experience using AWS (Serverless) and/or GCP

Understand the importance of driving quality into code through test automation

Have supported applications in production, with demonstrable experience of good observability practices within a full stack environment. (e.g. Rum, Tracing)

Have worked in a collaborative environment with strong engineering practices and know what good engineering looks like

Care about the product life cycle and are customer value focused

Understand the value of continuous, iterative improvement using data to drive decisions and a culture of feedback

Passionate about software development with an appetite for learning and self-improvement

What you’ll be doing in the role

As a member of a cross-functional, stream-aligned team, you will work collaboratively with the teams’ engineering manager, product manager, designer, and up to 4-5 other engineers, including a tech lead

Using agile software development practices and a product mindset, you will work as a team to plan, build and support software that our customers love

You will be highly self-motivated and energetic and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with a bias for action

Collaborating with teams outside of product engineering, working closely with customers and understanding their needs

Be happy working in all the major cloud providers: AWS, GCP & Azure

With a You Build It, You Run It mindset, you will have intimate knowledge of our products from code commit through to production operation

Supporting production systems with monitoring tools such as Datadog

Strive for stable systems observability

You will champion our principles, fuel a growth mindset by getting involved in communities and help improve our engineering culture

Pushing the boundaries, questioning the status quo, ensuring what we are doing and what we are building has high value and impact for our users

Key Technologies

Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform and AWS

Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript

Frameworks: Vue.js, Django Rest Framework, Container-based and Serverless architectures

Databases: MongoDB and DynamoDB

DevOps and Monitoring: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge and DataDog

Why Prolific is a great place to work

We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.

We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is p