Engineering Manager

Who you are

• 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

What the job involves

• 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
• 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
• Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js
• Frameworks: Django Rest Framework, Serverless architectures, container-based services
• Databases: MongoDB, DynamoDB, Postgres
• DevOps & Monitoring Tools: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge, DataDog

Benefits

• Bank holiday swaps
• Enhanced sick pay
• L&D budget – £1000 per year
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Remote Work ( Within UK or US)