Staff 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.

Help mold Amplify’s engineering organization by:

• Being an individual contributor who leads by example – fundamentally, this role is about being an excellent engineer who is not a people manager, but who, through engineering, mentorship, and thought leadership, plans and delivers amazing products and shapes the technical direction

Impress the toughest customers around – seventh graders – by:

• Designing and building engaging, quirky, fast front ends using frameworks like React

Make life better for passionate, overworked teachers by:

• Working closely with AI Scientists and experienced teachers to design and build AI classroom assistants, coauthors, and coaches that support every teacher in running the best class of their life

• Architecting apps that meet the ultimate reliability and uptime challenge for digital tools – is this better than paper?

• Architecting and 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

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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 and AWS CloudWatch

Learn every day by:

• Leading collaboration, pull request-ing, and mentoring across teams

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

Essential Responsibilities:

• Crafting immersive animated environments and characters using the latest web and canvas frameworks

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

• Modeling data from student activities to show teachers just the right advice

• Conceptualize and implement impactful new products or enhancements using AI

• Simulating hundreds of thousands of kids to implement scaling, stability, and security improvements

• Improving our deployment and testing automation pipelines

• Architecting, implementing, and evangelizing a centralized API to provide classroom enrollment data for millions of users

Required Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

• 8+ years of professional software development experience

• Proven technical, team, and organizational leadership

• Ability to apply and promote strong CS and software engineering fundamentals

• 2+ years experience with a modern JavaScript framework (preferably React)

• 4+ years experience with server-side development preferably in Node.js, Java, or Python

• Experience with database technologies (modeling, ORMs, tuning)

• Experience deploying production systems in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Experience building new systems, retiring old ones, and everything else in between

• Strong communication skills in writing, conversation, and maybe silly gifs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with tools we use every day:

  • Build: Linux, Code Pipeline, Terraform, Docker, SCSS

  • Storage: Postgres, Dynamo, S3, Snowflake

  • Deploy: AWS (EC2, Lambda, SQS, etc.), Datadog

• Experience (professional or personal) with the latest AI Technologies: Large Language Models, Model Context Protocol, Automatic Speech Recognition, Computer Vision, etc.

• Experience with tools we don’t use, but should, and the wisdom to know when to recommend them

• 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, stock options, 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 $160,000 - $175,000. This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans.  If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email hiringaccommodations@amplify.com.

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

Amplify is an E-Verify participant.