Senior Software Engineer, Prolific
Product Engineering
High-quality human-powered data at scale
Posted today
High-quality human-powered data at scale
101-200 employees
Posted today
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate human understanding.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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 the job involves
- 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
- 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
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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Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$33.8m
Series A
Total funding: $33.8m
Company benefits
- Bank holiday swaps
- Enhanced sick pay
- L&D budget – £1000 per year
- 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
Kings Cross, London, UK
Leadership
Phelim Bradley
(Co-Founder & CEO)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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