Senior Software Engineer, Amplitude
Experiment
1-5 days a week in office
Product analytics company
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Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
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1-5 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 in software engineering
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field
- Proven experience operating at a senior-level scope. You’ve led large, ambiguous initiatives with significant business impact
- Strong full-stack expertise (React + backend systems such as Node.js and/or Python)
- A deep sense of ownership - you don’t wait for direction; you create it
- Exceptional product taste - you care deeply about UX, details, and building things people love
- An AI-native mindset - you actively use and experiment with the latest AI tools to amplify your impact and rethink how software gets built
- Ability to balance speed and quality in a high-velocity environment
- Strong judgment in technical trade-offs and system design
Desirable
- You think like a product builder first, engineer second
- You’re constantly reinventing how you work, using cutting-edge tools and workflows to achieve outsized results
- You’re energized by open-ended problems with no clear “right” answer
- You hold a high bar, not just for your own work, but for the team and product as a whole
- You turn ambiguity into clarity and momentum
What the job involves
- This isn’t a “take tickets and ship code” role. You’ll operate as an owner, shaping both the product and the technical direction of a system used by some of the most sophisticated product teams in the world
- You’ll work across the stack, React frontend, Node.js and Python backend, to build intuitive, high-performance experiences that make experimentation accessible, powerful, and trustworthy
- Own critical product surfaces end-to-end from ideation to production and beyond
- Drive product direction in partnership with design and product leaders
- Build and evolve systems across React, Node.js, and Python that scale with customer growth
- Leverage modern AI tooling to dramatically accelerate development, prototyping, and iteration cycles
- Raise the bar for engineering quality - code, architecture, and user experience
- Lead by example - through hands-on development, technical mentorship, and thoughtful decision-making
- Move fast on ambiguous problems, turning ideas into shipped, customer-facing value
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. The case has since been resolved, and Amplitude continues to release new products and operate at full capacity.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336.1m
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
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
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