Engineering Manager, Prolific
Salary not provided
MongoDB
AWS
Kubernetes
TypeScript
GCP
JavaScript
Python
Django
Postgres
Celery
Next
DynamoDB
Datadog
Senior and Expert level
Remote from UK
High-quality human-powered data at scale
Open for applications
High-quality human-powered data at scale
101-200 employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceMarketplaceMarket researchSaaSeCommerce
Open for applications
Salary not provided
MongoDB
AWS
Kubernetes
TypeScript
GCP
JavaScript
Python
Django
Postgres
Celery
Next
DynamoDB
Datadog
Senior and Expert level
Remote from UK
101-200 employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceMarketplaceMarket researchSaaSeCommerce
Company mission
To accelerate human understanding.
Role
Who you are
- Proven Leadership: Extensive experience in engineering management and a demonstrable track record of technical leadership that inspires and delivers
- Strategic Problem Solver: Exceptional problem-solving acumen coupled with strategic thinking
- Clear Communicator: Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead diverse teams, influence stakeholders, and collaborate effectively across all levels
- Technical Depth: 5+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on expertise building highly available, transactional, and distributed cloud-based applications (e.g., e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, or SaaS solutions)
- Passion for People Development: A genuine passion for developing others, with significant experience in managing, motivating, coaching, and mentoring high-performing individuals and teams
- Bridge Builder: Fluency in translating complex technical solutions and their feasibility into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical stakeholders
- Fintech/Payments Experience: Billing, Payments, Pricing & fees, financial reporting and account infrastructure are big pluses
- Our Technology Stack (You'll be working with these technologies):
- Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Frameworks: Django Rest Framework, Serverless architectures, container-based services
- Databases: MongoDB, DynamoDB, Postgres
- DevOps & Monitoring Tools: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge, DataDog
- Join us at Prolific and play a critical role in shaping the human data infrastructure that is powering the next generation of AI innovation. Apply now and let's build the future, together
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you won't just manage; you'll inspire, empower, and elevate. You'll cultivate high-performing engineers and champion good engineering practices
- Working hand-in-hand with your Product Manager, you'll ensure your team is not just set up for success but poised to deliver exceptional customer impact
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role where your expertise will directly impact the technical excellence of your teams' work
- You'll be instrumental in driving technical decision-making and collaboratively building scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems that power the future of AI
- Lead with Impact: Take full accountability for leading, coaching, and empowering one or more engineering teams to consistently deliver outstanding customer value
- Develop and Grow Talent: Be a coach and mentor, actively nurturing the professional growth of your engineers, including impactful hiring, onboarding, performance management, and supporting career advancement
- Unblock and Accelerate: Champion a healthy and predictable pace of work by proactively planning, removing blockers, orchestrating dependencies, and fostering crystal-clear communication within and beyond your team
- Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with product managers and your team to define both what to build and how to build it to ensure consistent and high impact pace
- Technical Leadership: With your team, drive the technical solution design and implementation, ensuring alignment with the overarching technical direction
- Sustainable Innovation: Collaborate closely with product managers and the team to manage technical debt and toil and provide support for existing systems. Implement and maintain standards for creating secure, high-performance, observable, and well tested code that ensures long-term reliability
- Cultivate Excellence: Foster a powerful ownership culture characterised by DevOps practices, continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence
- Shape the Future: As a key member of the engineering leadership team, you will significantly contribute to defining and evolving Prolific's engineering practices, from our collaborative ways of working to our architectural direction
Our take
Founded in 2014, Prolific is a marketplace and data analysis company that provides researchers with a network of test participants. From eye-tracking to human-facing AI applications, Prolific’s network acts as both a recruiter for test participants and as a marketplace for researchers scientists to hire said participants.
Founded in 2014, it’s already used by the likes of Google, Stanford, Oxford and Kings College London Universities to test new AI products, providing “stress tests” for its clients. Prolific’s user base now counts over 2000 potential test subjects, whilst researchers leverage its network to launch surveys, tests and evaluation tasks every 2 minutes.
An indicator of Prolific’s success is maintaining of profitability for years after its initial Y Combinator investment. In 2024, it raised $32 million in Series A to maintain its healthy position. This funding will allow it to expand its operations.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$33m
Series A
Total funding: $33m
Company benefits
- Bank holiday swaps
- Company wide holidays/offsites
- Early finish Fridays
- Enhanced maternity leave – 13 weeks full paid, 26 weeks 50% pay
- Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks full paid
- Enhanced sick pay
- Mental health days
- L&D budget – £1000 per year
- Dog friendly co-working space
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Company values
- We win together
- We care deeply about our customers
- We make every minute count
- We're optimistic and find a way
- We embrace change
- We aim high
Company HQ
Vauxhall, London, UK
Leadership
Phelim Bradley
(CEO & Co-Founder)Currently also Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund. Previously Dphil at Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Bioinformatics Intern at Illumina and MPhil of Computer Biology at University of Cambridge.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Prolific
- At Prolific, we want all of our employees, researchers, and participants to be included and so we commit to having ongoing discussions about diversity and inclusion and regularly look at areas where we can improve. This policy aims to: - treat all our employees fairly and respectfully, regardless of their job status, location, or work hours ⏰ - avoid any illegal discrimination based on age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, and traveler status. These are protected by the UK Equality Act (2010), Ireland Employment Equality Act (2004), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) at the federal level and the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) at the state level. ⚖️ - refuse to tolerate any kind of illegal discrimination 🙅🏻♀️. This includes pay and benefits, work conditions, grievance and discipline handling, termination, redundancy, parental leave, flexible working requests, employment selection, promotion, training, and other opportunities for development.
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