Senior Software Engineer, Amplify
$120-140k
This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance. This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
Job no longer available
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$120-140k
This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance. This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are sceptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- Experience with web technology and our tech stack is a bonus but not required
- Our tech stack:
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$215m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $263.3m
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