Senior Software Engineer, Amplify

$135-140k

Eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance

SQL

React

AWS

Docker

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Java

Linux

Node.js

Postgres

Terraform

Splunk

Vue.js

Azure

Snowflake

Overflow

Datadog

Angular 14+

Senior and Expert level

Remote in US

K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher

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K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher

1001+ employees

EducationLearningSaaS

Be an early applicant

$135-140k

Eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance

SQL

React

AWS

Docker

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Java

Linux

Node.js

Postgres

Terraform

Splunk

Vue.js

Azure

Snowflake

Overflow

Datadog

Angular 14+

Senior and Expert level

Remote in US

1001+ employees

EducationLearningSaaS

Company mission

To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are sceptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
5+ years of professional software development experience
Strong CS and software engineering fundamentals, and the wisdom to know when they’re relevant
3+ years’ experience with a modern JavaScript framework (React, Vue, Angular, etc.)
2+ years experience with server-side development in a language like Node.js, Python, or Java
Experience with database technologies (SQL, modeling, ORMs, tuning)
Experience deploying production systems in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Strong communication skills in writing, conversation, and maybe silly gifs

Desirable

Experience designing front-end architecture
Including mentoring junior developers in making better decisions
Experience with at least some of the tools we use every day:
Front-end frameworks: React
Back-end frameworks: Node.js (Express), AWS Lambdas
Tools and systems: Linux, Docker, AWS, Datadog, Terraform, CD Pipelines
Data stores: Postgres, Snowflake, AWS S3, Dynamo
Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow
Experience in education or ed-tech

What the job involves

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
Make life better for passionate, overworked teachers by:
Architecting apps that meet the ultimate reliability and uptime challenge for digital tools – is this better than paper?
Build internal applications and interfaces that let Amplify subject and content experts better translate their expertise into a best-in-class teacher and student experience
Designing tools, workflows, and practices to ship code from your laptop to classrooms frequently and confidently
Build well structured and documented interfaces and contracts so our platform can work as a cohesive whole in serving teachers and other high-touch users
Impress the toughest customers around – seventh graders – by:
Designing and building engaging, quirky, fast frontends using frameworks like Angular and React
Help school administrators build great schools by:
Building data pipelines that respect privacy and ensure security while offering useful insights
Analyzing performance and squashing tricky bugs using tools like Datadog, Splunk, Alert Logic, and AWS CloudWatch
Learn every day by:
Leading collaboration, pull request-ing, and mentoring on a cross-functional team that handles frontend and backend functionality
Participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series
Example Projects You Might Work On:
Working on an interface for internal experts to understand student responses and configure how they should be interpreted
Architecting algorithms to select the right activity for the right student at the right moment
Working on an engine for better understanding how students are thinking when they interact with our platform
Creating teacher and student friendly front-end components, assessments and reporting pages
Modeling data from student activities to show teachers just the right advice
Simulating hundreds of thousands of kids to implement scaling, stability, and security improvements
Improving our deployment and testing automation pipelines

Our take

Since launching as Wireless Generation in the year 2000, before rebranding in 2012 after News Corp acquired the company, Amplify has grown into one of the leading providers of K-12 curricula, assessment and supplemental programs for ELA (English Language Arts), Math and Science.

The EdTech market has been growing rapidly for the last decade and more, and its value is expected to surpass 230 billion by 2030. This growth means that the company has plenty of competition from the likes of Khan Academy and Kaplan Test, but the fact that Amplify is used by around 10 million students puts it in a very strong position.

After a major growth funding round in 2021, Amplify acquired digital math tools developer Desmos. This is in keeping with its commitment to strategically acquire high-performing education companies in order to expand its own tech and product offerings.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

23% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2021

$215m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Mar 2021

$0.1m

GRANT

Total funding: $263.3m

Company HQ

Dumbo, NY

Articles

Amplify Acquires Desmos Curriculum to Build the Future of Math Instruction

Amplify Raises $215 Million in a Growth Funding Round

Leadership

Larry Berger

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President and then CEO of Amplify post-acquisition. Serves on the boards of Touch Press, the Academy of American Poets, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Institute for Sustained Attention, and the Southern Education Foundation.

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