Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Prolific, a leader in human data infrastructure for AI development, as a Senior Software Engineer. You will play a pivotal role in developing and guiding our product, leveraging your broad software development knowledge and a deeper specialism in either front-end or back-end development. This is a chance to significantly influence our product's trajectory and revolutionize research. You'll collaborate with a cross-functional team using agile methodologies, contributing to all aspects of the software lifecycle, from planning and building to production support. The role requires a strong understanding of modern web applications, experience with various technologies, and a passion for continuous improvement. Prolific offers a competitive salary, benefits, and remote work opportunities within a mission-driven culture.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of modern web applications
• Experience building Typescript/Javascript applications and using NoSQL databases
• Experience using Python, or similar language
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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, work as a team to plan, build and support software that our customers love
• Be highly self-motivated and energetic and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with a bias for action
• Collaborate 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, have intimate knowledge of our products from code commit through to production operation
• Support production systems with monitoring tools such as Datadog
• Strive for stable systems observability
• Champion our principles, fuel a growth mindset by getting involved in communities and help improve our engineering culture
• Push the boundaries, question the status quo, ensure what we are doing and what we are building has high value and impact for our users

Preferred Qualifications

Have a ‘product builder’ mind-set

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits
• Remote working