Staff Software Engineer, Amplitude
Android DX
$212-319k
OTE
Plus Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP). OTE is inclusive of bonus or commission
Product analytics company
Open for applications
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$212-319k
OTE
Plus Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP). OTE is inclusive of bonus or commission
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- A strong focus on developer experience and empathy for the engineers who use your work
- Deep expertise in Android platform internals and best practices
- A track record of technical leadership where others look to you for guidance and decision-making
- Strong judgment in making tradeoffs between API design, performance, backward compatibility, and speed of delivery
- Comfort working across team boundaries and influencing without direct authority
- A high bar for code quality, testing, and long-term maintainability
- The ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical partners
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent on Android development
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Java, and experience with modern Android APIs and tooling
- Experience designing public APIs with a strong focus on stability and backward compatibility
- Experience debugging complex issues across a wide range of Android devices and OS versions
- Familiarity with performance profiling, memory management, and concurrency on Android
What the job involves
- Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions
- We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive
- The Developer Experience (DX) team at Amplitude builds and maintains the foundations that power how developers integrate, extend, and trust Amplitude across platforms
- Our mission is to make Amplitude’s SDKs reliable, easy to adopt, and a joy to build on, so customers can confidently instrument their products and unlock insights at scale
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Android to play a key technical leadership role on our DevEx team
- In this role, you will lead the design and development of Amplitude’s core Android SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay, and serve as the Android platform expert that other SDK teams, such as Experiment, Guides, and Surveys rely on
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll operate with a wide scope and high impact: setting technical direction for the Android platform, driving cross-SDK architecture, improving performance and reliability, and raising the bar for developer experience across Amplitude’s mobile ecosystem
- Lead the technical direction, architecture, and long-term evolution of Amplitude’s Android SDK platform
- Own and drive development of core Android SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and ease of use
- Act as the Android platform expert and trusted partner for other SDK teams (Experiment, Guides, Surveys), enabling them to build on shared foundations safely and efficiently
- Design and evolve shared infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions that scale across multiple Android SDKs
- Collaborate closely with Product, and Customer Support to ensure SDKs meet real customer needs
- Lead cross-team technical discussions, reviews, and architectural decisions that span multiple SDKs
- Improve developer experience through better APIs, documentation, tooling, testing strategies, and sample apps
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the overall quality and effectiveness of the team
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: $336.2m
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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