Senior Software Engineer
Remote
United Kingdom
Full Time
26-02-2025
Job Specifications
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our team and take a pivotal role in the development and guidance of our product. As a ‘t-shaped’ engineer, you will bring a broad practical knowledge across various areas of software development, complementing and supporting our growing team whilst likely having a deeper specialism in front or backend. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your existing skills, experience, and knowledge to significantly influence the trajectory of our product as we aim to revolutionize research.
What you'll be doing
As a member of a cross-functional, stream aligned team you will work collaboratively with the teams’ engineering manager, product manager, designer, and up to 4 other engineers
Using agile software development practices and a product mindset, you will work as a team to plan, build and support software that our customers love.
Collaborating with teams outside of product engineering, working closely with customers and understanding their needs.
Writing code - our stack is currently Vue.js, Typescript (FE), Python (BE) and NoSQL databases
Be happy working in all the major cloud providers: AWS, GCP&Azure.
With a You Build It, You Run It mindset, you will have intimate knowledge of our products from code commit through to production operation
Supporting production systems with shift right testing and tools such as Datadog
Strive for stable systems observability.
You will champion our principles, fuel a growth mindset by getting involved in communities and help improve our engineering culture
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
What you’ll bring
Deep understanding of modern web applications
Experience building Typescript/Javascript applications and using NoSQL databases
Experience using Python, or similar language
Knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture
Experience using AWS (Serverless)
Understand the importance of driving quality into code through test automation
Have supported applications in production, with demonstrable experience of good observability practices within a full stack environment. (e.g. Rum, Tracing)
Have worked in a collaborative environment with strong engineering practices
Care about the product life cycle and are customer value focused
Understand the value of continuous, iterative improvement using data to drive decisions and a culture of feedback
Passionate about software development with an appetite for learning and self-improvement
Interview Process
Talent Screen
Hiring Manager Call
Technical Interview
Principles Interview
About the Company
Prolific is a technology company building the biggest pool of quality human data in the world—and the ultimate platform to access it. Over 35,000 AI developers, researchers, and organizations use Prolific to gather data from real, engaged participants—with a new study launched every 2 minutes. Prolific has been ranked among the fastest-growing businesses in the Financial Times 1000 in 2024 and the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in 2023. Know more
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