Senior Software Engineer

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

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. 

What You’ll Do

• 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?

  • Build internal applications and interfaces that let Amplify subject and content experts better translate their expertise into a best-in-class teacher and student experience

  • designing tools, workflows, and practices to ship code from your laptop to classrooms frequently and confidently

  • build well structured and documented interfaces and contracts so our platform can work as a cohesive whole in serving teachers and other high-touch users

• Impress the toughest customers around – seventh graders – by:

  • designing and building engaging, quirky, fast frontends using frameworks like Angular and React

• Help school administrators build great schools by:

  • building data pipelines that respect privacy and ensure security while offering useful insights

  • 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 that handles frontend and backend functionality

  • participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Working on an interface for internal experts to understand student responses and configure how they should be interpreted.

• Architecting algorithms to select the right activity for the right student at the right moment.

• Working on an engine for better understanding how students are thinking when they interact with our platform.

• 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

Basic Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 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 (React, Vue, Angular, etc.)

• 2+ years experience with server-side development in a language like Node.js, Python, or Java

• 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

Preferred Requirements

• Experience designing front-end architecture

  • Including mentoring junior developers in making better decisions

  • Including 

• Experience with at least some of the tools we use every day:

  • Front-end frameworks: React

  • Back-end frameworks: Node.js (Express), AWS Lambdas

  • Tools and systems: Linux, Docker, AWS, Datadog, Terraform, CD Pipelines

  • Data stores: Postgres, Snowflake, AWS S3, Dynamo

• Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow

• Experience in education or ed-tech

What we offer:

Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a 401(k) plan, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross salary range for this role is $135,000 - $140,000. This role is eligible to earn 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.

Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.

If selected, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may also be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination or submit to enhanced background screening, including fingerprints.