Staff Software Engineer, Amplitude
Growth
$199-300k
+ Bonus or commission + Equity
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$199-300k
+ Bonus or commission + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- Have at least 5 years of experience working in a frontend or fullstack engineering role
- Have a thorough understanding and experience with JavaScript application frameworks (React/Redux, Angular, Backbone, etc.)
- Have experience leading the design and implementation of long-term initiatives/systems in close collaboration with cross-functional teams and other stakeholders
- Can create motivating technical visions that both empower engineering teams and setup the business for success in the long-term
- Have a bias for action; you’d rather implement, learn from results, and iterate quickly than spend a lot of time tweaking and perfecting things before launching to end users
- Growth mindset: are motivated by moving metrics and driving concrete business outcomes while solving customer pain points
- Can rapidly prototype solutions as well as take a concept to production
Desirable
- Have previous experience on a growth team, or know product-led growth fundamentals
- Have previous experience as a technical leader of an engineering team
- Have thorough knowledge of AB testing & experimentation
- Have experience with Personalization or Recommendation systems
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Product Engineer who can own technical visioning and engineering of complete systems that impact customer acquisition, monetization, and customer retention as a key member of Amplitude’s Growth team
- You’ll be part of the engineering team and work across teams with people from product, marketing, customer success, and design
- Work across our entire stack using Typescript, React + Redux, CSS Modules, GraphQL, Node, Python, Postgres, and MySQL
- Set the technical vision and build engineering-driven roadmaps for parts of the team
- Architect major initiatives to build a scalable foundation and fuel our growth
- Lead and mentor other engineers on the team
- Lead projects, from ideation and implementation, through to launch
- Design and implement features and improvements in all of Amplitude’s products (Analytics, Experiment, Recommend) to increase retention and engagement (ex. New user experience, onboarding, invite flows, feature adoption)
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with product and design teams to iterate on our products
- Design analytics taxonomy & implement analytics tracking to enable and guide our data-driven approach
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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