Senior Software Engineer, Amplify

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree or training
• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Understanding of good software design and modern software engineering practices
• Understanding of modern frontend and backend web technologies
• Strong problem solving ability and experience working within complex systems and large code bases
• Ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative setting and engage in self-driven learning
• Ability to articulate technical concepts verbally and in writing
• A passion for working on education products and a desire to make them more equitable and accessible
• Preferred qualifications
• Languages and frameworks: TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Nx, React, ESBuild
• Data stores: Experience with modern data stores such as MongoDB and DynamoDB
• Cloud infrastructure: Experience in managing cloud-based infrastructure using tools like AWS, Datadog, Terraform, and Docker
• Testing: Proficiency in automated testing techniques, with experience in testing frameworks like Jest and WebdriverIO

Desirable

• As an engineer on Amplify’s Learning Experience team you will join a talented team tackling the toughest problems in education, developing our cutting edge platform to support K–12 math, science and language arts curriculum products.
• The Learning Experience team is at the heart of Amplify’s curriculum platform and is responsible for back and front end components covering: content authoring, the in-lesson student and teacher experience, and supporting teacher tooling
• Our fully remote engineering team builds elegant and flexible systems that can quickly respond to design and pedagogy demands.
• You will work in cross-functional teams alongside product managers, designers, data scientists and education experts on a variety of impactful projects and have involvement in initiatives from ideation phases through to production release
• Shape and build high quality, robust, scalable software solutions that help Amplify build and maintain a best-in-class learning platform
• Develop TypeScript code across front-end and back-end components including automated tests and related tooling
• Reviewing code from other engineers on the team, bringing your keen eye for pragmatic and elegant solutions to challenging problems
• Collaborate with our DevOps team in developing, managing and monitoring our deployment processes and infrastructure
• Ensuring that our software meets the needs of all students and works reliably in real classrooms. Engaging in proactive testing and monitoring of our systems and guaranteeing a good experience for our end users
• Participating in a collaborative learning environment within Amplify engineering: reviewing code from other engineers and participating in learning sessions to foster best practices and engineering culture
• Examples of projects you could work on:
• Providing dashboard tooling for teachers to manage a lesson while they walk around the classroom and interact with students
• Extend Computation Layer - an in-browser domain specific language for authoring interactive and social activities - by making it more powerful and easy for teachers and Amplify authors to use
• Adding a flexible mechanism for dynamic automated spoken and animated feedback to be authored into lessons
• Implementing tooling that allows teachers to create and share feedback with students in real time
• Integrating modern translation tooling into our lesson authoring platform, allowing our lessons to be delivered in a range of languages
• Implementing first class support for accessible keyboard interactions within our sketch tool