Engineering Manager

Prolific - UK Job Board?; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Prolific as an Engineering Manager and lead cross-functional teams to innovate in the AI space. This hands-on leadership role involves guiding engineers, driving technical excellence, and shaping the future of AI through high-quality human data infrastructure. Candidates should have proven leadership experience, strong technical skills, and a passion for people development.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership and technical skills in managing engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and strategic thinking.
• Experience in developing and mentoring high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach engineering teams to deliver outstanding customer value.
• Collaborate with product managers on project priorities and execution.
• Drive technical decision-making and solution design.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Coaching

Education

Proven experience in engineering management

5+ years of professional software development experience

Tools

Django Rest Framework

Serverless architectures

Container-based services

Job description

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.

Why Prolific?

At Prolific, our product development group is a powerhouse of Engineering, Product, Data, Design, and Research – all working in lockstep. You'll thrive in cross-functional teams, each with a clear mission and the freedom to self-organize and innovate towards the best possible outcomes. We're passionate about moving fast and continuously improving, and we champion strong engineering principles and a culture of strong ownership.

As an Engineering Manager, you won't just manage; you'll inspire, empower, and elevate. You'll cultivate high-performing engineers and champion good engineering practices. Working hand-in-hand with your Product Manager, you'll ensure your team is not just set up for success, but poised to deliver exceptional customer impact.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where your expertise will directly impact the technical excellence of your teams' work. You'll be instrumental in driving technical decision-making and collaboratively building scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems that power the future of AI.

What You'll Be Building and Doing:

• Lead with Impact: Take full accountability for leading, coaching, and empowering one or more engineering teams to consistently deliver outstanding customer value.
• Develop and Grow Talent: Be a coach, and mentor, actively nurturing the professional growth of your engineers, including impactful hiring, onboarding, performance management, and supporting career advancement.
• Unblock and Accelerate: Champion a healthy and predictable pace of work by proactively planning, removing blockers, orchestrating dependencies, and fostering crystal-clear communication within and beyond your team.
• Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with product managers and your team to define both what to build and how to build it to ensure consistent and high impact pace
• Technical Leadership: With your team, drive the technical solution design and implementation, ensuring alignment with the overarching technical direction
• Sustainable Innovation: Collaborate closely with product managers and the team to manage technical debt and toil and provide support for existing systems. Implement and maintain standards for creating secure, high-performance, observable, and well tested code that ensures long-term reliability.
• Cultivate Excellence: Foster a powerful ownership culture characterised by DevOps practices, continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence
• Shape the Future: As a key member of the engineering leadership team, you will significantly contribute to defining and evolving Prolific's engineering practices, from our collaborative ways of working to our architectural direction.

What You'll Bring to the Table:

• Proven Leadership: Extensive experience in engineering management and a demonstrable track record of technical leadership that inspires and delivers.
• Strategic Problem Solver: Exceptional problem-solving acumen coupled with strategic thinking.
• Clear Communicator: Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead diverse teams, influence stakeholders, and collaborate effectively across all levels.
• Technical Depth: 5+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on expertise building highly available, transactional, and distributed cloud-based applications (e.g., e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, or SaaS solutions).
• Passion for People Development: A genuine passion for developing others, with significant experience in managing, motivating, coaching, and mentoring high-performing individuals and teams.
• Bridge Builder: Fluency in translating complex technical solutions and their feasibility into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical stakeholders.

Our Technology Stack (You'll be working with these technologies):

• Frameworks: Django Rest Framework, Serverless architectures, container-based services

Join us at Prolific and play a critical role in shaping the human data infrastructure that is powering the next generation of AI innovation. Apply now and let's build the future, together.

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.

By submitting your application, you agree that Prolific may collect your personal data for recruiting and global organisation planning. Prolific's Candidate Privacy Notice explains what personal information Prolific may process, where Prolific may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Prolific use of your personal information.

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