Staff Software Engineer, Amplitude
Software Development Kit (SDK)
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building SDKs or libraries for browsers
- Familiarity with building apps for React Native and Flutter. Experience working full-stack is a big plus
- Attention to detail and obsession over fit-and-finish and design perfection
- Experience shipping libraries with elegant APIs used broadly within your company or externally as OSS
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an engineer to work within our SDK engineering team, which is an integral piece of our analytics ecosystem
- You will have full ownership of our open source data collection libraries and plugins
- These products are used by thousands of customers to send tens of billions of events to Amplitude each month
- Build, manage and maintain all SDKs that Amplitude provides to our customers to bring data into Amplitude
- Reduce friction in the data setup experience all the way from SDK integration to building the first chart within Amplitude
- Evaluate and implement the best APIs and developer experiences for analytics tracking on web across typescript and javascript
- As one of the team’s polyglots, write and test code in multiple programming languages, often on the same day
- Provide technical customer support to engineers deploying our analytics SDKs in their applications
- Write developer documentation published in READMEs and our technical docs site
- Extend CI/CD to automate the build process, testing, and deployment of SDKs to their respective package managers
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with product and design teams to iterate on our products
- Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
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. Whilst this case is ongoing, Amplitude is still releasing new products and operating at full capacity.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336m
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 values
- Humility - For Amplitude, humility is all about checking its egos at the door.
- Ownership - Ownership means that Amplitude can take the initiative to solve problems that drive its shared company success.
- Growth Mindset - A growth mindset is essential to ensuring every employee at Amplitude can advance their career.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Spenser Skates
(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
(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
(Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
People progressing
Joined as Recruiting and Front Desk Coordinator, promoted to Recruiting Operations Associate after 9 months and again to Technical Recruiter after 5 months. They were promoted again to Senior Technical Recruiter in September 2021.
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