Senior Software Engineer, Amplify
$140-150k
+ Eligibility to earn an annual discretionary bonus
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
Open for applications
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$140-150k
+ Eligibility to earn an annual discretionary 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/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- 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 (like Angular or React)
- 2+ years experience with server-side development preferably in Node.js, Java (Dropwizard), or Python
- 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 with tools we use every day:
- Front-end frameworks: React, Redux, the next thing that will replace them all
- Back-end frameworks: Node.js, AWS Lambdas, AWS AppSync (GraphQL)
- Tools and systems: Linux, Docker, AWS, Datadog, Terraform, Jenkins
- Data stores: DynamoDB, Postgres, Snowflake, AWS S3
- 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
- Impress the toughest customers around – seventh graders – by:
- Designing and building engaging, quirky, fast frontends using frameworks like Angular and React
- 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?
- Building well structured and documented RESTful APIs so that our apps can share data with ease
- Designing tools, workflows, and culture to ship code from your laptop to classrooms frequently and confidently
- Help school administrators build great schools by:
- Building data pipelines that respect privacy and ensure security while offering useful insights
- Implementing code that runs great across platforms under variable memory and network constraints
- 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
- Participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series
- Example Projects You Might Work On
- Architecting algorithms to select the right activity for the right student at the right moment
- 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.
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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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