Engineering Manager, AI Data Infrastructure & Growth

Prolific; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Prolific is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a cross‑functional group of engineers, product, data and design. You will coach and empower teams to deliver high-impact, scalable AI infrastructure and customer value.

You will partner with Product, drive architecture decisions, and ensure maintainable, resilient systems. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering management or equivalent coaching, mentoring and leadership experience as an individual contributor.
• A demonstrable track record of building products and leading complex initiatives and designing systems.
• Exceptional problem-solving and deep understanding of software engineering.
• Clear and structured communication skills, with an ability to lead diverse teams, influence stakeholders, and collaborate effectively across all levels and disciplines.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including hands‑on expertise building highly available, transactional, and distributed cloud-based applications.
• Strong web frontend expertise with proven experience building secure and customer facing frontend applications and strong knowledge of modern web technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach engineering teams to consistently deliver outstanding customer value.
• Nurture the professional growth of your engineers, including impactful hiring, onboarding and performance management.
• Create a healthy and predictable pace of work by proactively planning, removing blockers, orchestrating dependencies, and fostering crystal‑clear communication within and beyond your team.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and your team to define both what to build and how to build it.
• With your team, drive the technical solution design and implementation, ensuring alignment with the overarching technical direction.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and the team to manage technical debt and toil and provide support for existing systems.
• Contribute to defining and evolving Prolific's engineering practices and cross team initiatives

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product leadership

Software development

Frontend web

Distributed systems

Communication

Tools

Django REST Framework

Serverless

Containerization

Job description

Prolific is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a cross‑functional group of engineers, product, data and design. You will coach and empower teams to deliver high-impact, scalable AI infrastructure and customer value.

You will partner with Product, drive architecture decisions, and ensure maintainable, resilient systems. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence.