Senior Software Engineer, Amplitude
Web SDK
Product analytics company
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Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about building software that wows other developers and changes the way they think about analytics
- Proven experience developing SDKs or libraries for the web, with a focus on performance and usability
- Familiarity with techniques like tree-shaking and distributing SDKs via CDNs for optimal efficiency
- Bonus: Experience working across the full stack, especially with Node.js and modern web frameworks
- An eye for detail and a commitment to delivering polished, high-quality solutions
- A track record of shipping libraries with intuitive, elegant APIs, widely adopted internally or as open-source projects
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an engineer to work within our SDK engineering team, which is an integral piece of our Amplitude ecosystem
- You will have full ownership of our open source data collection libraries and plugins. These products are used by thousands of customers to send hundreds of billions of events to Amplitude each month
- Lead Development of Web SDKs: Design, build, and maintain Amplitude’s web SDKs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and ease of integration
- Work Across Multiple Technologies: Leverage your polyglot skills to write and test code in various languages, frameworks, and tools
- Support Developer Integration: Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support to engineers integrating our analytics SDKs into their web applications
- Write and Maintain Developer Documentation: Produce and refine high-quality documentation, including guides, README files, and technical documentation hosted on our docs site
- Enhance Build and Deployment Pipelines: Extend CI/CD systems to automate building, testing, and deploying SDKs to npm and other package managers, ensuring smooth releases
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product managers and designers to iterate on features and deliver a polished developer experience
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Lead technical discussions, contribute to architectural decisions, and mentor team members on best practices for web development
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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back within 2 weeks
0% employee growth in 12 months
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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