Senior Analytics Engineer, Amplify
$120-130k
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
Job no longer available
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$120-130k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are sceptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent
- 5+ years of professional software development or data engineering experience
- Strong CS and data engineering fundamentals
- Proven fluency in SQL and its use in code-based ETL frameworks such as dbt
- Understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines, analytical data modeling, aggregations, and metrics
- Knowledge of Data Warehousing design, tooling, and support
- Strong communication skills in writing and conversation
- Amplify’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires all staff to provide proof of vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided
Desirable
- Fluency in a development language such as Python
- Familiarity with metadata management tools
- Experience building dashboards, reports, models in business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Looker
- Experience with tools we use every day:
- Storage: Snowflake, AWS Storage Services (S3, RDS, Glacier, DynamoDB)
- ETL/BI: Airflow, dbt, Matillion, Looker, Tableau
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS Kinesis, Lambda, API Gateway, Terraform
- Experience with tools we don’t use, but should, Proven passion and talent for teaching fellow engineers and non-engineers
- Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow
- Experience in education or ed-tech
What the job involves
- Our data analytics teams ingest, transform, model, and aggregate the data that empowers teams across Amplify and our customers to make sense of and tell stories with their data. You’ll be working with data scientists, data analysts, and data engineers to provide clean, accurate, reliable models and metrics for our products and internal business partners
- Impress the toughest customers around – students – by building the data models which drive the design cycle for fun and compelling apps, helping them understand their students by building modular data models
- Help school administrators build great schools by:
- Respecting privacy and ensuring security while offering useful insights by making inquisitive choices in tech stack, database design, masking policies, and encryption
- Helping school principals understand how teachers are teaching and how students are learning by architecting data warehouse schemas and SQL transforms with just the right CTEs, window functions, and pivots
- Analyzing performance and squashing tricky bugs using tools like Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, SQL, Python, Looker, and Datadog
- Make life better for passionate, Marketing and Sales teams by building cohesive, common data marts from sources like Salesforce and HubSpot
- Learn every day by:
- Immersing oneself in agile rituals and leveraging our infrastructure
- Leading collaboration, pull request-ing, and mentoring on a multi-functional team
- Participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series
- Becoming an expert in the data models and standards within Amplify and the educational industry in order to deliver quality and consistent solutions
- Example Projects You Might Work On
- Building well-tested and documented ELT data pipelines for both full and delta extraction
- Engineer novel dataset which expresses a students progress and performance through an adaptive learning experience which allows for flexible comparison across students and deep analysis of individual students
- Work with data science to measure the impact of design changes to an administrator reporting application
- Improve the build and query efficiency of data models constructed from a large volume of event stream data
- Contributing to leading industry data standards, such as Caliper Analytics or xAPI
- Crafting slowly changing dimensional models that take into account the nuances of K-12 education such as School Year changes and students moving schools or classes
Our take
Since launching as Wireless Generation in the year 2000, before rebranding in 2012 after News Corp acquired the company, Amplify has grown into one of the leading providers of K-12 curricula, assessment and supplemental programs for ELA (English Language Arts), Math and Science.
The EdTech market has been growing rapidly for the last decade and more, and its value is expected to surpass 230 billion by 2030. This growth means that the company has plenty of competition from the likes of Khan Academy and Kaplan Test, but the fact that Amplify is used by around 10 million students puts it in a very strong position.
After a major growth funding round in 2021, Amplify acquired digital math tools developer Desmos. This is in keeping with its commitment to strategically acquire high-performing education companies in order to expand its own tech and product offerings.
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$215m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $263.3m
Company benefits
- Full benefits: Our health insurance options include health, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children—effective on your date of hire. We make a generous contribution to all employee HSA plans, which can be used to cover eligible health expenses. We offer unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) plan with an employer match, long- and short-term disability, and employer-sponsored employee life insurance. We offer paid parental leave, backup childcare and backup eldercare. On top of all that, we also provide our full-time employees with a robust voluntary benefits program that includes coverage options for everyone in the family, including pets.
- Opportunities for inspiration: Amplify believes in the importance of supporting charitable nonprofits in the communities where we live and work. We encourage employees to support organizations that promote the welfare of children and families in the areas of education, health, and social services. One way for employees to give back is through our Volunteer Time Off program, which allows employees to take 16 hours each year to contribute to an eligible charitable or nonprofit organization.
- Tuition reimbursement: Full-time employees who are enrolled in an accredited college or university course related to their areas of work are eligible to receive tuition reimbursement.
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
Leadership
Larry Berger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President and then CEO of Amplify post-acquisition. Serves on the boards of Touch Press, the Academy of American Poets, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Institute for Sustained Attention, and the Southern Education Foundation.
Catherine Mackay
(COO & President)Catherine joined Amplify in 2014 as a Consultant of Amplify Learning. She quickly moved into the role of GM and SVP of Middle School ELA, then CEO of Amp,ify New Curriculum before becoming COO in 2018. Prior to Amplify, she spent 8 years at Tablet Hotels (acquired by Michelin) as the Head of Business Development and Director of the Operating Board.
LaShon Ormond
(CIO)LaShon joined Amplify in 2011 as a Project Manager. While at the company, she's held a number of roles and moved into the role of Chief Impact Officer in 2023.
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