Senior Backend Engineer, Amplitude
$170-256k
OTE
Plus Employee Stock Purchase Program
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Product analytics company
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Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-256k
OTE
Plus Employee Stock Purchase Program
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience developing and improving on robust, scalable backends for user-facing applications
- Strong backend experience with application backends, microservices, supporting high throughput ingestion systems, optimizing caching that balances speed and correctness
- Understand the full stack and flow of user-facing web applications – frontend experience is a plus
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
- Can synthesize customer input and architectural knowledge to create outsized engineering impact
- Excellent communication skills and ability to adapt to changing requirements
- Constant desire to learn and grow in the field of web development
- Have experience with defining, managing and scaling AWS solutions via infrastructure as code tools
- Have experience managing CI/CD pipelines
- Strong practitioner of automated testing
- Have familiarity with the following: (Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, Python)
- Have interest or experience in technical leadership of an engineering team
What the job involves
- The Data Management team's mission is to give customers discoverable, understandable, and secure data they can trust
- As a member of the Data Management team, you will own features around different aspects of customers' data including planning and instrumentation, discoverability and usage, clean up, enrichment, monitoring, and privacy/access
- Amplitude does this by providing an expansive set of data tools, providing timely recommendations for keeping data clean using our AI Data Assistant, and automating these data governance jobs for customers
- The team is fast moving and you will be expected to iterate quickly and own, drive and achieve alignment on a variety of projects ranging from new product features to best practices and scalability of our codebase & infrastructure
- Drive business impact through owning end-to-end delivery of projects
- Operate with a focus on rapid but sustainable delivery through proper sequencing and experimentation
- Advocate for the right priorities and communicate effectively with engineering leadership
- Contribute to definition of SLAs and upholding operational excellence for applications and services that power the data management experience
- Contribute to the technical direction of the team, product, and systems
- Get involved in performance optimization and scaling efforts
- Work with with Product Management and Design to generate and turn novel ideas for solving customer problems into engineering solutions
- Drive engineering discussions and engineering best practices
- Mentor and contribute to the success of other engineers on the team
Our take
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behaviour. Product, marketing, and growth teams use Amplitude to discover and share insights about user engagement, retention, and revenue.
Amplitude’s user flows reveal which actions are the most commonly taken after users sign up, and which usually precede purchases made in-app, creating paths through the app. The behaviour of individual app users can be viewed with unlimited real-time activity feeds and user timelines.
Thousands of companies use Amplitude analytics including Microsoft, Under Armour, Intuit, Twitter, Bonobos, Peloton, and many more. In 2024, a securities fraud case was filed against Amplitude due to an IPO and stock share rise that was alleged to be artificially inflated before their downturn in 2022. Whilst this case is ongoing, Amplitude is still releasing new products and operating at full capacity.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336m
Company benefits
- We offer a generous 12-week parental leave for fathers/partners and 18-20 weeks for new birthing parents. This leave policy also provides flexible scheduling so you can spend time with your family and bond with your little one. Specific leave policy will vary by country
- We believe it’s important to unplug from work to reset and recharge. We offer flexible vacation time and unlimited PTO — and we encourage you to use it!
- We provide a monthly stipend for the wellness activity of your choosing, from gym memberships and fitness classes to acupuncture and massages
- Equity is an important component of compensation, but it should benefit you (not just the company). In addition to offering competitive RSU grants that vest quarterly over three years, our Employee Stock Purchase Plan gives employees the option to buy below market price
Company values
- Humility - For Amplitude, humility is all about checking its egos at the door.
- Ownership - Ownership means that Amplitude can take the initiative to solve problems that drive its shared company success.
- Growth Mindset - A growth mindset is essential to ensuring every employee at Amplitude can advance their career.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Spenser Skates
(CEO)Previously worked as an Algorithmic Trader, Researcher at DRW Trading Group. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Curtis Liu
(CTO)Previously worked as a Teaching Assistant at MIT and as a Software Engineer at Google. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Jeffrey Wang
(Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
People progressing
Joined as Recruiting and Front Desk Coordinator, promoted to Recruiting Operations Associate after 9 months and again to Technical Recruiter after 5 months. They were promoted again to Senior Technical Recruiter in September 2021.
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