Staff Software Engineer, Amplitude
Full Stack
$212-319k
OTE
Eligible for equity
Product analytics company
Be an early applicant
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$212-319k
OTE
Eligible for equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- Have a thorough understanding and experience with one or more JavaScript application frameworks (React/Redux, Angular, Backbone, etc.)
- Have a bias for action; you’d rather implement, learn from results, and iterate quickly than spend a lot of time tweaking and perfecting things before launching to end users
- Enjoy working closely with Design and Product Management to influence UX and challenge objectives
- Growth mindset: are motivated by moving metrics and driving concrete business outcomes while solving customer pain points
Desirable
- Have previous experience on a growth team, or know product-led growth fundamentals
- Have thorough knowledge of AB testing & experimentation
What the job involves
- The Growth Engineering team is dedicated to applying product, engineering, and data to keep Amplitude growing as fast as possible
- To scalably grow Amplitude, we build features, infrastructure, and experiments that maximize growth
- We help new/returning/dormant users discover, activate their core use cases and build a habit
- Deepen their engagement through discovery of relevant features and expand what they can do with Amplitude over time
- Our work ranges from iterating on our core user experience across our entire stack to improve free to paid conversion
- We own the user lifecycle and drive multi-product acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:
- Lead the design and development of projects, and participate in every step of projects, from ideation and implementation, through to testing, QA, and launch
- Work across our entire stack using Typescript, React + Redux, CSS Modules, GraphQL, Node, Python, Postgres, and MySQL
- Design and implement features and improvements in all of Amplitude’s products (Analytics, Experiment, CDP) to increase retention and engagement (e.g. new user experience, onboarding, invite flows, feature adoption)
- Identify opportunities to improve Amplitude based on research, data, creativity, and user feedback
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with product and design teams to iterate on our products
- Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices
- Design analytics taxonomy & implement analytics tracking to enable and guide our data-driven approach
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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