Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.
The role
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. 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.
What you’ll bring to the role
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 you’ll be doing in the role
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
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
Why Prolific is a great place to work
We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.
We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity.
Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture.
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About Prolific
Prolific helps dedicated research teams to collect the very highest-quality human-powered data - at scale - using our simple-to-use platform to target and manage participants from our diverse, vetted participant pool.
The truth matters: the best decisions, and biggest discoveries, are built on the highest-quality data. And with the increasing proliferation of AI, access to reliable, diverse data to develop and train AI models has never been more important.
Created by researchers for researchers, Prolific was founded to provide a better way for researchers and organisations to get high-quality human data and feedback at scale for important research.
Now, more than 30,000 researchers across academia and industry use Prolific to gather definitive human data and feedback from reliable, engaged and fairly-treated participants – with a new study launched every 3 minutes.
