Senior Software Engineer (Product Engineering)

About the role

We're looking for Senior Software Engineers with a 'product builder' mindset to join our specialized team focused on serving frontier model creators and AI application developers. As a full-stack engineer, you will work across Prolific’s domains to solve customer and product problems.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Push the boundaries, question the status quo, ensuring what we are doing and what we are building has high value and impact for our users

Requirements

• 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)

Qualifications

• 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

We offer a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture. At Prolific, our compensation packages for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. Many roles also include the opportunity to earn a cash variable element, such as a bonus or commission. Each job posting shows a salary range that reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires, based on the role’s location as well as your skills, experience, and relevant education or training. You can check the job posting’s subtitle to see where the position is based. Your recruiter will also be happy to share the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Pay

The base salary range for this full-time role in San Francisco is $200,000 - $250,000 per annum.

Schedule

Based in San Francisco, CA, US.