Senior Software Engineer, Prolific
$250-300k
1+ day a week in office
High-quality human-powered data at scale
Posted today
High-quality human-powered data at scale
201-500 employees
Posted today
$250-300k
1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate human understanding.
Role
Who you are
- Over 4 years of experience in a product engineering role
- Can translate business concepts into software models
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt across the breadth of Prolific’s domains
- Familiar working in both monoliths and distributed systems
- Strong communication and collaboration skills for direct customer interaction
- Good understanding of modern web applications and architecture design patterns
- Experience supporting applications in production environments
- Judgment to balance scrappy startup execution with scalable, reliable engineering
- Comfort with rapid iteration and responding to customer queries with urgency
- Experience with some of our technology stack:
- Python (we use Django & Fast API)
- TypeScript and JavaScript (we use Vue.js)
- SQL and NoSQL databases (we use MongoDB and PostgresSQL)
- Building and deploying to the cloud (we use GCP, Kubernetees, Github Actions & CircleCI)
- Instrumenting, monitoring & observability (we use Datadog)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for impact-focused Software Generalists to join our specialized team focused on serving frontier model creators and enterprise AI application developers
- As a full-stack engineer, you will work across Prolific’s domains to solve customer and product problems
- This is an exciting opportunity to work directly with frontier AI companies, making critical technical decisions that balance scrappy startup execution with scalable, reliable engineering, as Prolific revolutionizes research for the AI community
- You'll will have regular in person collaboration with customers and our US team, as well as collaborate closely with our UK-based tech teams
- This role is hybrid based out of our San Francisco office, approx 1-2 days a week
- This is a unique engineering role at Prolific
- In this role, you will operate with high ownership and a product mindset, at start-up pace, to solve customer problems and capture business opportunities irrespective of the technology required to do so
- You will be part of a cross-functional Product Engineering team, optimised for the success of a single customer group
- You will collaborate directly with account managers, customer success specialists and customers to deeply understand their problem spaces
- You will ideate and build with autonomy, supported by a high-performing team
- This role will see you work across Prolific domains to solve customer problems, needing you to get up to speed quickly and deliver across shared codebases to a high engineering standard
- You will also help support our systems in production & respond to incidents when required
- 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
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
$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
- Remote Work ( Within UK or US)
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.
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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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