Staff Software Engineer, Amplitude
Design Systems, Frontend
$166-319k
OTE
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) + Equity
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$166-319k
OTE
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- You bring 6+ years of experience in a frontend or full-stack engineering role
- You thrive on building component-based UIs with modern tools like React and TypeScript
- You have experience building design systems
- You excel at crafting atomic, composable, and reusable components
- You have strong leadership, communication, and planning skills
- You’re well-versed in current and emerging web development trends, including styling approaches (e.g. CSS Modules, Sass, Tailwind), component libraries (e.g. Radix, shadcn), and design system tooling (e.g. Storybook, Chromatic)
- You’re familiar with WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Standards
- You have strong UI/UX sensibilities and a keen eye for detail
- You care deeply about the technical details that distinguish performant, accessible interfaces from those that merely look good
- You have experience with Figma and with optimizing design to dev handoffs
- You have experience with publishing, managing docs, and creating roadmaps for public libraries
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an engineer to join a new Design Systems team here at Amplitude
- You will lead the technical direction of our design system and UI component library within a small team of designers and engineers
- You’ll collaborate with Amplitude’s product teams—consisting of engineers, product and brand designers, and product managers—to ensure they have the building blocks needed to craft and enhance high quality, consistent, and accessible user experiences
- Develop reusable components that serve as the foundation for Amplitude’s UI, using TypeScript, React, and CSS
- Establish and maintain governance model
- Develop systems, patterns, and tooling to continuously improve the quality, performance, and accessibility of Amplitude’s UI components
- Create clear, user-friendly design system documentation to empower product teams
- Partner closely with product teams (including product managers, product and brand designers, and engineers) to ensure the design system meets their current and evolving needs
- Participate in design and code reviews to uphold high standards
- Lead engineering discussions and mentor peers on best practices, particularly around component reusability, accessibility, and performance optimization
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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Insights
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 HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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.
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