Engineering Manager, Prolific
Frontend Focus
High-quality human-powered data at scale
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High-quality human-powered data at scale
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate human understanding.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in engineering management or equivalent coaching, mentoring and leadership experience as an individual contributor
- A demonstrable track record of building products and leading complex initiatives and designing systems
- Exceptional problem-solving and deep understanding of software engineering
- Clear and structured communication skills, with an ability to lead diverse teams, influence stakeholders, and collaborate effectively across all levels and disciplines
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on expertise building highly available, transactional, and distributed cloud-based applications
- Strong web frontend expertise with proven experience building secure and customer facing frontend applications and strong knowledge of modern web technologies
What the job involves
- At Prolific, our product development group is a powerhouse of Engineering, Product, Data, Design, and Research – all working in lockstep. You'll thrive in cross-functional teams, each with a clear mission and the freedom to self-organize and innovate towards the best possible outcomes. We're passionate about moving fast and continuously improving, and we champion strong engineering principles and a culture of strong ownership
- 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, coach engineering teams to consistently deliver outstanding customer value
- Nurture the professional growth of your engineers, including impactful hiring, onboarding and performance management
- Create a healthy and predictable pace of work by proactively planning, removing blockers, orchestrating dependencies, and fostering crystal-clear communication within and beyond your team
- Collaborate closely with product managers and your team to define both what to build and how to build it
- With your team, drive the technical solution design and implementation, ensuring alignment with the overarching technical direction
- Collaborate closely with product managers and the team to manage technical debt and toil and provide support for existing systems
- Contribute to defining and evolving Prolific's engineering practices and cross team initiatives
- Key Technologies:
- Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js
- Frameworks: Django Rest Framework, Serverless architectures, container-based services
- Databases: MongoDB, DynamoDB, Postgres
- DevOps & Monitoring Tools: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge, DataDog
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
$34.1m
Series A
Total funding: $34.1m
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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