Prolific · 10 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer (Product Engineering)
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $250K/yr
6+ years expProlific is an innovative company focused on reshaping the AI landscape through human data infrastructure. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their specialized team, working on product engineering to solve customer and product challenges in the AI domain.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)CrowdsourcingData Collection and LabelingMachine LearningMarket ResearchProduct ResearchPsychology
Responsibilities
You will be highly self-motivated and energetic and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with a bias for action, making decisions balancing generic, scalable solutions with rapid, scrappy implementations
Work as part of a cross functional team alongside engineers, product managers, account managers, and customer success specialists
Collaborate directly with customers and stakeholders to understand their unique needs and translate those into proportionate and actionable next steps
Develop domain expertise in AI development workflows and frontier model training
Respond quickly to customer queries and technical challenges, working in the open with the team, owning problems and their solutions
Work across shared repositories with other tech teams writing clean, maintainable code while maintaining customer-specific focus
Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of product features, using agile development practices to plan and deliver work as a team
Help to support production systems and respond to incidents when required
Learn how our systems operate from development through to production
Actively participate in team discussions, retrospectives, and knowledge sharing
Continuously develop your technical and product understanding
Collaborate effectively with UK-based teams across time zones
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
Qualification
Required
6+ years of relevant technical expertise in a product engineering role
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, Github Actions & CircleCI)
Instrumenting, monitoring & observability (we use Datadog)
Good understanding of modern web applications and architecture design patterns
Can translate business concepts into software models
Familiar working in both monoliths and distributed systems
Understanding of the importance of code quality and automated testing
Strong communication and collaboration skills for direct customer interaction
Ability to quickly learn and adapt across the breadth of Prolific's domains
Judgment to balance scrappy startup execution with scalable, reliable engineering
Comfort with rapid iteration and responding to customer queries with urgency
Experience supporting applications in production environments
Experience working in a collaborative product engineering team
Interest in the product lifecycle and delivering value to customers
Comfortable learning from feedback and iterating based on data
Curious and motivated to continuously improve your technical skills
Benefits
Competitive salary
Equity
Benefits
Remote working
Opportunity to earn a cash variable element, such as a bonus or commission
Company
Prolific
Building the most advanced global infrastructure for People Science.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$33.54M2023-07-11Series A· $32.34M
2019-12-04Seed· $1.2M
Leadership Team
Phelim Bradley
CEO
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