Engineering Manager - Lead High-Impact AI Infrastructure

Prolific; Greater London; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

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Job summary

Prolific is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and empower high-performing engineering teams across the product, data, design, and research domains.

You'll partner with Product Managers to define roadmaps, drive technical decisions, and deliver scalable, resilient cloud-based systems powering AI innovations. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes strong engineering practices, ownership, and delivering customer impact while growing your team's capabilities.

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 coordination

System design

Problem solving

Communication

5+ years software development

Frontend web development

Tools

GCP

AWS

Django Rest Framework

Serverless

Kubernetes

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Vue.js

Postgres

MongoDB

DynamoDB

Job description

Prolific is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and empower high-performing engineering teams across the product, data, design, and research domains.

You'll partner with Product Managers to define roadmaps, drive technical decisions, and deliver scalable, resilient cloud-based systems powering AI innovations. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes strong engineering practices, ownership, and delivering customer impact while growing your team's capabilities.