Senior Software Engineer, Amplify

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong CS and software engineering fundamentals
• Ability to write code expertly in Javascript and at least one other dissimilar language
• 2+ years’ experience with a modern JavaScript framework (preferably React/Redux)
• 2+ years experience with server-side development preferably in Node.js
• Experience deploying production systems in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Strong proven communication skills in writing and conversation
• Understanding of good software design and modern software engineering practices

Desirable

• As an engineer at Amplify, you will join a talented team tackling the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology – including user experience, APIs and services, data analysis, and deployment pipelines
• You’ll play an active role in imagining and improving product design and the classroom experience
• Impress the toughest customers around – students – by:
• Building engaging, quirky, fast front ends using frameworks like React
• Ensuring an equitable experience for students by implementing code that runs great across platforms under variable, performance, memory and network constraints
• Make life better for passionate teachers by:
• Improving apps reliability and uptime
• Monitoring apps to make sure they are available to teachers and classrooms
• Building well structured and documented API integrations so that our apps can interoperate with ease
• Frequently and confidently ship improvements from your laptop to classrooms
• Architect apps that meet the ultimate reliability and uptime challenge for digital tools – is this better than paper?
• Help school administrators build great schools by:
• Building software that respects privacy and ensures security while offering useful insights
• Implementing code that runs great across platforms under variable memory and network constraints
• Analyzing performance and squashing tricky bugs using tools like DataDog or AWS CloudWatch
• Learn every day by:
• Collaboration, pull requests, and mentoring on a cross-functional team
• Participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series
• Example Projects You Might Work On:
• Crafting immersive compelling experiences for teachers and students using the latest web tools
• Implementing logic that handles student work: from persistence to selecting the right activity for the right student at the right moment
• Optimizing software so that it can handle hundreds of thousands of kids with stability and security in mind
• Ensuring existing software continues to function well
• Improving our workflows and tooling, and of course our existing customer experience

• If selected, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may also be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination or submit to enhanced background screening, including fingerprints