Engineering Manager, Amplify
$165-175k
+ Bonus
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
Posted today
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Posted today
$165-175k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are skeptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.
Role
Who you are
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical experience demonstrating strong CS fundamentals
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- 2 years proven track record building and managing development teams delivering complex projects while still being a hands-on leader
- Experience deploying production systems in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Strong communication skills in writing, conversation, and maybe silly gifs
- Familiarity with agile product development methodologies
Desirable
- Experience with tools we use every day:
- Back-end frameworks: Java, Dropwizard, Node.js
- Front-end frameworks: React, Redux, Data Visualization Frameworks
- Tools and systems: Linux, Docker, AWS, Datadog, Terraform, Jenkins
- Data stores: DynamoDB, Oracle, Postgres, AWS S3
- Experience in AWS toolchains and devops
- 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
- We are looking for a talented and passionate Engineering Manager to be a leader within a technology team where every engineer is responsible for the quality of our product and the happiness of our students and teachers
- You’ll play an active role in imagining and improving product design and the classroom experience
- Technical Leadership: Collaboratively guide your team to be innovative and select appropriate architectures, strategies, and tech stacks
- Technical Guidance: Foster strong technical practices (code review, architectural planning, security by design) within your team and across multiple teams
- Execution: Work with product leads to ensure your team has a high-value, high-velocity, and responsive product development lifecycle
- Delivery: Take responsibility for successful delivery against quarterly OKRs, including leading your team in establishing best practices in estimation, requirements analysis, balancing trade offs, and executing against commitments
- Communication and Collaboration: Work with Senior technical management, direct reports, offshore resources, Product Owners, Designers and QA to ensure smooth working relationships
- Strategy: Collaborate with business, product, design and tech leadership to drive business, product, and technical strategy and goals for your team
- People management: Provide technical leadership, career development, coaching, and mentoring for engineers
- Crafting immersive, compelling and equitable experiences for teachers and students that run great across platforms under variable memory and network constraints
- 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 millions of kids with stability and security in mind, thus making life better for passionate teachers
- Ensuring existing software continues to function well by monitoring apps to make sure they are available to teachers and classrooms
- Improving our workflows and tooling in order to frequently and confidently ship new features and functionality to classrooms
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.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$215m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $263.3m
Company benefits
- Health benefits: Preventative care, mental health services, fertility benefits, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, and robust dental and vision coverage are just some of the benefits accessible to all eligible employees.
- Time off: Unlimited paid time off to all permanent (salaried) employees. Hourly employees receive a generous PTO bank. This can be used for vacation, sick days, or personal time—whether you need to take your pet to the vet, or care for a sick friend or family member. Paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability benefits, and paid holidays are also common employee benefits offered at Amplify
- Voluntary benefits: Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance, and critical illness are just some of the voluntary benefits our employees can take advantage of at any time during their employment with Amplify.
- Financial benefits: Traditional (pre-tax) and Roth-based retirement account options with an employer-match benefit, giving you the flexibility and freedom to set and save for your retirement goals. Full-time staff have the opportunity to take advantage of an equity incentive plan.
- Remote work: More than half of staff are based in cities outside the Amplify NYC headquarters. Employees can be productive and make valuable contributions regardless of where they’re located. Fun is also part of the remote work experience at Amplify—from happy hours to talent shows, yoga, and meditation sessions, Amplifiers can enjoy the many virtual employee engagement events that take place all year round.
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
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Leadership
Larry Berger
(CEO)Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President 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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